Aida Kuderinova

Aida Kuderinova is a doctoral researcher at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University specializing in sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape studies. Her academic interests center on the transformation of urban toponymy in Kazakhstan, with a particular focus on the processes of nomination and renaming in multilingual and post-Soviet contexts. She examines how linguistic choices, cultural memory, and state language policies shape the visual and symbolic representation of space. Her current project dissertation, Toponymic Landscape Transformation: Processes of Nomination and Renomination, investigates the semiotic, historical, and ideological dimensions of urban toponymy. The project combines several methods—linguistic landscape analysis, discourse analysis, and the study of language policy—with supplementary empirical data, including a public survey conducted as part of the broader research framework. The survey serves as an additional analytical component rather than the foundation of the dissertation.