Cultural representation in Luxembourgish street naming practices

Abstract This paper investigates street naming practices in Luxembourg. Starting from a theoretical sketch of how the curation of a given cityscape by dint of cultural artifacts (e.g., street names) establishes complex orders of cultural representation , it discusses three case studies for street naming campaigns from Luxembourg. These case studies represent different types of action modes , ideological motives and linguistic materials involved in street naming. First, the naming process for a newly established neighborhood in Luxembourg City illustrates the default mode of street naming by ad... Mehr ...