Sacru și profan în sistemul numelor de familie de pe Valea Sălăuței
Journal: Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Onomastics "Name and Naming"
Year: 2017

In this paper, the interaction between linguistic sign and its ideological content has been researched by applying a linguistic sociopolitical approach. Proceeding from the symbolic function of linguistic landscape, the study explains the legal mechanisms of introducing Soviet ideology into Ukraine's urban public space, the reasons for changing linguistic landscape after gaining independence in 1991, and the choice of new names to replace signs with Soviet semantics. The findings suggest that so