Viktoriia S. Husak
Doctoral Student at the Research Centre of the Baltic Languages and Onomastics
Institute of Lithuanian language,
Vilnius, Lithuania
e-mail: vikanal27@gmail.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2024-39.3
SUMMARY
The article has been dedicated to the description of the considerable influence of cognitive linguistics on the urbanonyms on the examples of the cities Kyiv and Vilnius. The total amount of the analyzed street names is 60 (40 Ukrainian and 20 Lithuanian). The problem of the research is urgent taking into consideration the street naming and renaming processes as the indicators of the fatal changes in the countries; is it possible to view the street names as imprints of people’s cultural memory; how the collective memory works; how the nation’s experience influences; is phenomenology the backbone of the street naming/renaming processes. This research is an attempt to analyze phenomenology and apply the prototype theory within the scope of the street naming or renaming processes in Kyiv and Vilnius, the countries with the same past and the different ways out the USSR. It is investigated how people’s memory operates and how the national awareness and cognitive processes can change the course of the events. The phenomenology is directly concerned with humans’ cognitive process which in its turn has the particular consequences to the nation and the state building. The research definitely has perspectives for the future. The street names are insufficiently explored and are not debated to the full extent. The main purpose is to observe how the street titles are categorized in mind and what are the reasons of their renaming, involving the mutual historical background as the parts of the USSR. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of such an enormous time gap in European route between Kyiv and Vilnius can be explained with the help of national cognition and its development.
Key words: urbanonyms, prototype theory, street naming/renaming processes, phenomenology.
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