The tension between recognisability and strangeness of toponymy is marked by the title, author`s pun ‘AntiPODian places’, utilizing the primal for the alternative history genre hallmark, point of divergence. It seems interesting to analyze toponomastics in following scopes: using of historical knowledge for decoding the semantic potential of such historical and toponymy mdifications alternate the historical discourse via toponymy cultural background of changed toponomastics reception issues (sender and recipient competences). ethnonims, ojkonims, chrematonims, eponims for the purpose of authenticate the changing history scenario. Writers builds the alternate toponomastics, e.g. Changing the toponomastics in created, secondary universe is one of the most interesting methods of alternate the history. This genre persuades the reader for intertextual lecture in relation to history known from the actual world. Those events, although possible, does not became truth. The aim of the alternative histories, speculative, literary genre, is to show and describe the different scenarios of historical events.
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