Open AccessMESSAGES TO URBI ET ORBI: ARMENIAN COMPONENT IN THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE OF MOSCOW
Author(s) -
Liudmila L. Fedorova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kulʹtura i tekst
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2305-4077
DOI - 10.37386/2305-4077-2021-1-228-244
Subject(s) - armenian , diaspora , linguistic landscape , component (thermodynamics) , linguistics , geography , demonstrative , urban landscape , history , ancient history , sociology , gender studies , philosophy , physics , thermodynamics , environmental planning
The paper offers a communicative analysis of signs and texts of Armenian component in the linguistic landscape of Moscow. It aims to highlight the functions of Armenian signs and texts. There are mastered Armenian names in the onomasticon of Moscow; Armenian characters are present on several city objects. Duplicated in Russian or English, the messages are addressed to urbi et orbi - the residents of the city, native speakers of Armenian and Russian, to migrants from Armenia, to guests of the Western Diaspora; they help them to “get in touch” with the city. The Armenian alphabet on several objects of the city has a symbolic function. Signs of a dynamic landscape serve to maintain contact and express solidarity. The paper focuses on the problems of language contacts in a modern megalopolis, preservation functions of a minority language in the environment of a dominant one.