Polish Street Namesakes. General Characteristics and Preliminary Outline for Analysing Urban Space Names-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Polish Street Namesakes. General Characteristics and Preliminary Outline for Analysing Urban Space Names

Published:2024-08-14 Issue:1 Volume:31 Page:183-204
ISSN:2450-4939
Container-title:Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza
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Author:

Rutkowski Mariusz^ORCID

Abstract

The article addresses the issue of commemorative street names as carriers of memory and signs of national identity. The overall collection of Polish streets, gathered in the TERYT database of the Central Statistical Office, is taken into consideration. The specificity of commemorative names and the essence of commemoration as a social phenomenon are discussed. The article presents a list of the 100 most common street namesakes in Poland, along with their most general characteristics (typology of namesakes) linked to numerical data. The final section sketchily outlines the research potential based on such a database, focused on unveiling significantaspects of Polish culture and value patterns.

Publisher

Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan

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