Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | Arquitecturas verbales y otras antigrafías
Chapter | Cartografía mnemotécnica: siglas y topónimos
Cartografía mnemotécnica: siglas y topónimos
Abstract
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.
Submitted: Oct. 14, 2023 | Accepted: Dec. 6, 2023 | Published May 23, 2024 | Language: es
Keywords Toponyms • Salvador de Madariaga • Acronyms • Maps • Dámaso Alonso
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