The names of public libraries in the province of Seville: from linguistic landscape to socionomastics
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https://doi.org/10.48075/odal.v7i1.36718Keywords:
urbanonyms, socionomastic, linguistic landscape, public libraries, SevilleAbstract
This paper analyses the names of public libraries in the province of Seville and considers them to be tangible manifestations of both the urban and rural linguistic landscape. The main objective is to identify the cultural, historical and social factors that motivate these naming choices. The research is based on the premise that institutional names operate ideologically in the public sphere (Puzey 2012) and that communities negotiate their identity through language (Ainiala and Östman 2017). Furthermore, the linguistic landscape is considered a primary source of onomastics (Gorter 2014). Methodologically, the study corpus has been geolocated through the IDEA Network (Network of Documentation Centres and Specialised Libraries of Andalusia) and documented through direct photography and Google Street View captures. Quantitative and qualitative analysis reveals different socionomastic trends: toponymic silence, urbanonymy as identity, anthroponymic patriarchy, and a diachronic evolution that shows how onomastic history traces the history of peoples (Fernández Juncal 2011). In conclusion, the results confirm that libraries constitute a linguistic landscape laden with social and historical meaning. This study opens up new avenues for research into urban names from this perspective.
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