Българските язовири. Политика по именуване
Bulgarian Dams. Policies of Naming
Author(s): Grigor Har. GrigorovSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Economy, Cultural history, Semiotics / Semiology, Geography, Regional studies, National Economy, Business Economy / Management, Regional Geography, Historical Geography, Maps / Cartography, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Governance, Sociology, Economic history, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Social history, Special Historiographies:, Semantics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social development, Political Ecology, Sociology of Culture, Economic development, Environmental interactions, History of Communism, Philology, Sociology of Politics, Socio-Economic Research, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: naming; toponymy; onomastics; socialism; dams
Summary/Abstract: Choosing a name is an important part of the construction of significant infrastructural projects, such as dams. Naming is not only a utilitarian procedure of individualizing a concrete space, but also a symbolic act that gives value to a specific name and transforms it in a cartographic and geographical “site of memory”. The selected name is picked out among other possible variants and is thus the result of a choice that implies an intention or at least a mental attitude. The article attempts to reconstruct the logic underlying the naming of Bulgarian dams.
Journal: Български фолклор
- Issue Year: XLVIII/2022
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 414-434
- Page Count: 21
- Language: Bulgarian
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