TELL ME YOUR FAVOURITE URBOCHREMATONYM AND I’LL TELL YOU IF YOU"RE A HIPSTER

Authors
Asist. univ. drANAMARIA RADU Universitatea din Regensburg, Germania / Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca
Pages
230
Abstract

In the era of hipsters, of brewing craft beer or cold brewed coffee, of minimalism and of quality food, naming a restaurant, a café or a pub is of great importance. Our comparative study focuses on analyzing urbochrematonyms in two cities: Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and  Regensburg, Germany. We will examine names of restaurants, pubs and cafés in these two cities, trying to establish to what extent the influence of foreign languages and cultures is reflected in their naming. We will highlight the naming mechanisms used by their owners as marketing strategies. This analysis will indicate the naming trends in two urban places, our focus being the better understanding of how managers use mental representations of global and glocal concepts in order to achieve uniqueness.  

Keywords
urbochrematonyms, globalization, glocalization, discursive strategies, marketing strategies