O mocy sprawczej słów. Przypadek placu i sal bez nazwy

• Authors: Aleksandra Wójtowicz

Title variants

EN

On the agentic power of words: The case of a square and auditoria without a name

Abstracts

EN

The author addresses the problem of naming the space associated with the Staszic Palace in Warsaw. She argues that along with its name, the square in front of the palace lost its both administrative and social distinctiveness and advocates for its restoration. Her analysis of the naming system, complemented by an investigation of archival sources and a reflection upon the history and cultural significance of selected parts of the palace, reveals a gap in the current naming conventions, which cover only urban areas. The article outlines an original proposal of naming typology for enclosed public places, developed in the course of the work on the selection of names for two auditoria of the Staszic Palace, which remained unnamed until 2020. Furthering the arguments that led to naming the auditoria under the author’s recommendations, she explores the connection between the placename and the meanings inscribed in the imaginary space. The theoretical background of the article has been provided by works of Edward Soja, Michel Foucault and Henri Lefebvre as well as the categories of collective memory of space (Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit) and affective heterotopy, defined by the author in her monograph on the Staszic Palace.

Keywords

PL

semantyka przestrzeni; pamięć miejsca; nazewnictwo; plac miejski; Pałac Staszica

EN

semantics of space; memory of space; naming; town square; Staszic Palace

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów
• Journal: Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 133-156

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Wójtowicz

• Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk

• https://orcid.org/000000022244699X

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2189565