I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

urban objects, onomastics, renaming of urban objects, primary and secondary nominations, language policy

The interest in the study of names of urban objects (urbanonyms) is due to a number of certain features inherent in this class of names. In the modern world, the city plays a huge role as a conglomerate of human culture. Specific features of the structure and semantics of urban names allow us to trace how language and culture interact with each other, participating in the formation of linguistic and national pictures of the world inherent in a particular language. Developments in the political paradigm lead to significant changes in the names of urban objects. The article considers urbanonyms as secondary artificial nominations that contain a variety of motivational connections that are restored in the course of special linguistic and extralinguistic analysis. The paper also dwells on the issue of renaming urban space objects in the context of certain historical and political changes, as well as part of the language policy implemented by the state. It reveals the main historical and cultural prerequisites that led to the change of the nomination principles. As a result of the process of conscious renaming of objects in urban space, the author notes the predominance of names of the anthroponymic type, because this type makes it possible to «model» the historical and cultural landscape of the city in accordance with the current political and state structure. Nevertheless, despite the change in the political course, urbanonyms associated with cultural symbols and devoid of ideological components remain in the urban space. The analysis is based on the material of city objects of Moscow, Sofia and Warsaw.

Масальская Мария Михайловна – аспирант кафедры славянской филологии Московского государственного университета имени М. В. Ломоносова; e-mail: marima94@yandex.ru