Shifting Borders – Shifting Languages: Investigating Commemorative Cityscape in Poznań and Słubice

• Authors: Małgorzata Fabiszak , Anna Weronika Brzezińska , Patryk Dobkiewicz

Abstracts

EN

This article explores patterns of street renaming in two locations which over the last century were interchangeably controlled by Germany and Poland: Posen/Poznań and Dammvorstadt/Słubice. It examines how changes in the language of administration influenced their urban streetscape. The results demonstrate that there are several different semantic categories of street names which show varied affinity to change. Commemorative street names inscribing personal names are most prone to alteration, while those based on topology and landmarks are often translated from one language to another and retain their meaning. Street names based on place names are a heterogeneous category with directional names showing more stability than those which represent the national geographical imagery.

Keywords

EN

collective memory; commemoration; critical toponymy; ideology; language planning policy; linguistic landscape; street renaming

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 126
• Pages: 277-299

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Fabiszak

• Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000000270897939

author

Anna Weronika Brzezińska

• Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000000182177608

author

Patryk Dobkiewicz

• Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000000288682987

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Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

28698352