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„Oddano w posiadanie wybitnej jednostce…” Onomastyka miejskiej ulicy
“Given an outstanding individual in possession…” Onomastics of City Streets

Author(s): Anna Orska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: The onomastics of the city, street, city space, gender

Summary/Abstract: The article presents reflections connected with onomastics of the streets — the constitutive element of city space. In the first part of this text there are shown schools of sociology of the city — culturalistic and humanistic. Different looks at street — sociological and urban are also put forward. Because the aritcle’s attention is focused on the names, there are Polish law and linguistics presented too. Among possible angles of undertaking research on onomastics of the streets, the author shows one which is new — gender. But the problem of cultural sex is not the main issue of the article. It is the question how we can look at the city and research only into it. The author brings back acts of trying to join gender to city space. In the last part of the article, there are showed own research findings of names of Katowice and Cracow streets.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 286-303
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish