GODONYMS WITH A CONDITIONALLY SYMBOLIC NOMINATION IN THE URBAN SPACE OF WARSAW

Abstract

The godonyms of the capital city are of particular interest to a wide range of researchers, since they carry important socio-cultural information. This article examines the godonyms of Warsaw with a conditionally symbolic nomination, analyzes their typology. The material for the analysis was 1931 names of the conditionally symbolic type, which is 37% (5213 in total) of the total number of names that make up the Warsaw onomastic landscape. As a result, it seems possible to conclude that names of this type are quite widely and variously represented in the urbanonymy of Warsaw, which makes the city in some sense more “alive”, and the identifying potential of godonyms of this type seems to fade into the background, giving way to an abstract symbolic meaning. It is worth noting the noticeable national orientation of godonyms. It is important to note that during the nomination process, preference is given to godonyms bearing national specifics, since the urban text is organically intertwined with socio- and ethno-cultural background knowledge.