Representation of local identity in Kaliningrad linguistic landscape
Journal: Verba Northwest Linguistic Journal
Year: 2024

The article is devoted to the analysis of linguoculturalelements presented in the linguistic landscape of Kaliningrad as markers of its residents’ localidentity. The basis of the geopolitical uniqueness of the Kaliningrad region is its emergence as a result of the Second World War on the lands of North-East Prussia, which until then had been a part of Germany. The absence of its own historical and cultural roots in the modern population of the region predetermines the peculiarities of local iden