| Title: | From Empire Avenue to Hiawatha Road: (Post)colonial naming practices in the Toronto Street Index |
| Author: | Mirko Casagranda |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a II-a: Onomastica din spațiul public actual, p. 291 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-343-4 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | The paper combines critical toponymy, the linguistic landscape approach and postcolonial studies in order to analyse the odonyms of Toronto. After discussing the concept of street names as linguistic items in which hegemonic cultural discourses are codified by means of naming strategies that aim at representing national identity, the paper focuses on the dichotomy between centre and periphery in postcolonial contexts. The same binary system is retraced in the Toronto odonyms that commemorate, on the one hand, the Royal Family and other figures of the Canadian colonial past and, on the other, the Aboriginal cultures and languages of Canada. |
| Key words: | odonyms, Toronto, critical toponymic research, linguistic landscape, postcolonial studies |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 2 | Oliviu Felecan | Oikonymic transformations in Romania in the first half of the twentieth century | DR, s.n., XXIV (1), 57 | 2019 | pdf html |
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