LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE OF MODERN DERBENT

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the study of the linguistic landscape of the modern Dagestan city. The paper considers the basic principles of nomination of godonyms. The specificity of the linguistic landscape of the post-Soviet Dagestan city, representing the socio-economic, political and cultural-ideological tendencies of different periods of the life of our country, is revealed. Toponyms are considered not only from the standpoint of structural, semantic and functional aspects, but also from the standpoint of cognitology. Attention is also paid to ergonyms as a significant layer of urbanonymy. The author concludes that Derbent’s speech portrait is characterized by a diverse linguistic practice of using Russian, English and Dagestan languages, which speaks of the polylingual and sociocultural space of the city. Further research into the changes in the linguistic landscape of the modern Dagestan city will allow us to better understand the sociolinguistic processes taking place in the multi-ethnic Russian society.