Submitted by tomski on 30 April, 2021 - 12:30.
WA Friday Lunch Talks are monthly meetings with presentations of current research results or research in progress by WA faculty, staff, or PhD students. Each talk is of 45 minutes (+15 minutes for discussion). We welcome all to a LECTURE ONLINE (MS Teams) "Spatio-temporal patterns of street renaming in Poland and East Germany" by prof. Małgorzata Fabiszak (Friday, April 30, 13:15-14:15).
prof. Małgorzata Fabiszak
Department of Cognitive Linguistics
"Spatio-temporal patterns of street renaming in Poland and East Germany"
ABSTRACT
This Polish National Science Centre and Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft funded Beethoven project looks at the street renaming practices in three locations in East Germany and Poland respectively. We analyse 102 years of changes in the city hemisphere. In this talk I focus on the two biggest cities under analysis: Leipzig and Poznań. I show the prevalent patterns of change across space and time. I also discuss certain methodological decisions that we have made in the project and effects they have on data analysis and interpretation.
Prof. Małgorzata Fabiszak’s key research interests are cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, critical discourse analysis, collective memory and linguistic landscape. She has published books and articles about emotion words in Old and Middle English, media war reports, inclusion and exclusion of the migrants on media, social activism of Lech Poznań football team, epistemic gestures, remembering and forgetting as inscribed in the city landscape, and ideological street renaming.
