Toponymies of the Cultural Landscape of Yakutia: Textualization Issues
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587-556620192129-136
Abstract
The article considers the problem of textualization of the toponymic space of Yakutia on the basis of the analysis of the field material collected with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 15-18-20047). It has revealed that the consideration of the cultural landscape of Yakutia as text associated with the secondary meaning of toponymy. The main distinguishing feature of toponymics of Yakutia is the predominance of geological, geomorphological, natural semantics in the local toponymy. Toponyms of Yakutia associated with permafrost have no analogues and were included in Russian geographical terminology. As part of the cultural landscape, toponymics represents one of its semantic layers. The cultural and semiotic approaches are used to identify the features and patterns of the toponymic text existence in the study area.
About the Authors
O. A. Lavrenova
Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
V. V. Filippova
Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yakutsk
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- Semiotics of cultural landscape includes symbols and images of places (scientific, artistic, folk, etc.).
- Toponymy is the part of semiotics of cultural landscape. It captures meanings that are associated with life, myths, and rituals of past and present.
- The ‘toponymic field’ of the cultural landscape of Yakutia is distinguished by the predominance of folk geographical terms and names of sacred places, inextricably linked to the living traditional culture.
- The names of local places create semantic milestones in the geo-cultural space, influencing the mentality of new generations.
- The toponymic layer of the cultural landscape is multi-scale, multi-layer and coherent.
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Lavrenova O.A., Filippova V.V. Toponymies of the Cultural Landscape of Yakutia: Textualization Issues. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2019;(2):129-136. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587-556620192129-136
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