Топонимическая картина мира: гендерные особенности номинации пространства
Toponymic worldview: Gender-specific characteristics in nomination of space

Summary/Abstract: The toponymic worldview, as a component of the broader linguistic worldview, most clearly demonstrates how humans perceive the surrounding space. It settles upon our established collective ideas about a certain territory, its various landscape and geographical features, that become rooted in the national mentality. In this sense, the process of human self-identification through geographical naming practices is determined in many ways by the gender aspect. Toponyms often reflect specific male and female characteristics, thus highlighting the importance of gender in human perception of the space. This article is based on a study of the usage of geographical names in Adygea and the Krasnodar region. A semantic domain defined as “gender relations” was singled out. Within its semantic structure, components such as “image of man”, “image of women”, and “image of kin” were established. The results obtained show that the identified naming models are anthroponymic in nature and function as the main mechanisms for generating most toponymic units.

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