Add to ORKGStudying place-names from the viewpoint of sigmatics is discussed. The article displays the irreducibility of names to a clearly specified place in classifications, and defines its symbolic, indexical, and iconic characteristics. The stages of studying semiotic aspects of place-names (syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics) repeat the stages of studying common names. The author proposes that sigmatic properties should be taken into account alongside with pragmatic features. The role of the human factor is revealed in contrasting the graded importance of objects for people as reference points in spatial cognition. Four frames are singled out which reflect both key meanings reflected in place-names, and constructive character of creating the ...
This article discusses the classification of geographical place names according to their origin. Sev...
This article focuses on Chilean place names that are analyzed from semiotic point of view, an aspect...
Many arguments on place have appeared in recent years again. In general, much of the arguments asser...
An approach to the study of place names based on properties of their denotata is discussed. It relie...
Theory and empirical findings in the research of place-name use. A summary of a habilitation dissert...
International audienceRecent critical toponymies have convincingly demonstrated that studying place ...
Abstract: The study of place naming, or toponymy, has recently undergone a critical reformulation as...
Cognitive and onomasiological properties of place names are considered in the article. Names of smal...
Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of co...
The paper reviews and complements existing knowledge about the acquisition of proper names. On the b...
Of central import to this study is the rarely cited notion that 'it is not spaces which ground ident...
The present article is divided into two parts. Its theoretical introductory part takes under scrutin...
The cognitive map and the use of names In this paper, the author attempts to provide a general s...
Recent critical toponymies have convincingly demonstrated that studying place names also reveals muc...
Place-name semantics have been discussed in many ways. In this article the author discusses the reas...
This article discusses the classification of geographical place names according to their origin. Sev...
This article focuses on Chilean place names that are analyzed from semiotic point of view, an aspect...
Many arguments on place have appeared in recent years again. In general, much of the arguments asser...
An approach to the study of place names based on properties of their denotata is discussed. It relie...
Theory and empirical findings in the research of place-name use. A summary of a habilitation dissert...
International audienceRecent critical toponymies have convincingly demonstrated that studying place ...
Abstract: The study of place naming, or toponymy, has recently undergone a critical reformulation as...
Cognitive and onomasiological properties of place names are considered in the article. Names of smal...
Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of co...
The paper reviews and complements existing knowledge about the acquisition of proper names. On the b...
Of central import to this study is the rarely cited notion that 'it is not spaces which ground ident...
The present article is divided into two parts. Its theoretical introductory part takes under scrutin...
The cognitive map and the use of names In this paper, the author attempts to provide a general s...
Recent critical toponymies have convincingly demonstrated that studying place names also reveals muc...
Place-name semantics have been discussed in many ways. In this article the author discusses the reas...
This article discusses the classification of geographical place names according to their origin. Sev...
This article focuses on Chilean place names that are analyzed from semiotic point of view, an aspect...
Many arguments on place have appeared in recent years again. In general, much of the arguments asser...