The study reveals ways to identify and describe the psycholinguistic meanings of lexical units (on example toponym "Vladikavkaz"). Psycholinguistic meaning is one types along with traditional type such as lexicographic meaning. consists a small set logically meaningful features that reflect described phenomenon. presented in classical explanatory dictionaries. It formulated on basis principle r...

This paper explores how the corporate (re)naming of football stadia and their urban environs is negotiated through fans’ toponymic discourses associated commemoration. Critical toponymy research emphasises oppositional tensions between sovereign authorities citizens, which can result in competing inscriptions space. Adopting a quasi-ethnographic approach, we reveal more complex picture by explo...