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Cartografía mnemotécnica: siglas y topónimos

Enric Bou    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

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Acronyms are a sequence of the initial letters of a series of names, organizations, companies or scientific terms. Together with acronyms, shortenings and compounds, they are words that summarize a title, the name of a company, a place. In this article I will study several cases of acronyms that correspond to toponyms and that form a real mnemonic cartography. In a toponym the place is abstracted in words. In toponymy there is a metric, a phonetic and symbolic value. The toponymy arises from the pre-existing – tangible or not – but after being named, the place lives conditioned by its name. Examples discussed include the Ars memoriae by Jacobus Publicius, a well-known 15th century rhetorician and physician, as well as texts by Salvador de Madariaga or Dámaso Alonso.

Published
May 23, 2024
Accepted
Dec. 6, 2023
Submitted
Oct. 14, 2023
Language
ES
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-780-7

Keywords: ToponymsMapsDámaso AlonsoAcronymsSalvador de Madariaga

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