Changes in the commemorative streetscape of Leipzig over the past 100 years

Abstract This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name changes in Leipzig, a city eastern Germany, over past one-hundred years. Our analysis focuses on ways which semantic choices streetscape are recruited to canonize traces national “supportive hegemonic socio-political order” (Azaryahu, 1997:480). We triangulate from variationist sociolinguistics, Linguistic Landscape (LL) studies and geographical visualize waves (re)naming during century political turmoil. Drawing historical archival data allows us interpret spatial temporal patterns odonymic as public embodiment subsequent state ideologies. The provides quantitative longitudinal support Scollon Scollon’s (2003) claim indexing officially sanctioned identity ideology well appropriation human space performed by turn index state-hegemonic politics memory.