[PDF] Personal Names And Naming eBook

Author : Sambulo Ndlovu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110759292

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This book fills a gap in the literature as it uniquely approaches onomastics from the perspective of both anthropology and linguistics. It addresses names and cultures from 16 countries and five continents, thus offering readers an opportunity to comprehend and compare names and naming practices across cultures. The chapters presented in this book explore the cultural significance of personal names, naming ceremonies, conventions and practices. They illustrate how these names and practices perform certain culture-specific functions, such as religion, identity and social activity. Some chapters address the socio-political significance of personal names and their expression of self and otherness. The book also links the linguistic structure of personal names to culture by looking at their morphology, syntax and semantics. It is divided into four sections: Section 1 demonstrates how personal names perform human culture, Section 2 focuses on how personal names index socio-political transitioning, Section 3 demonstrates religious values in personal names and naming, and Section 4 links linguistic structure and analysis of personal names to culture and heritage.

Author : Carole Hough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019163042X

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In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few decades. The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming strategies adopted for them.

Author : Stanley Lieberson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300083859

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What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. He disputes the commonly-held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal shifts.

Author : Frédérique Biville
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; the significant suppression or changing of names; the religious and historical significances of names; the uses of names in literary catalogues; names as devices to structure a group of shorter poems.

Author : Neil Burdess
Publisher :
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Names, Personal
ISBN : 9781910985328

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Charts the history and importance of personal names - given names, surnames, name titles, and professional names.

Author : Oliviu Felecan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3030731863

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This edited book examines names and naming policies, trends and practices in a variety of multicultural contexts across America, Europe, Africa and Asia. In the first part of the book, the authors take theoretical and practical approaches to the study of names and naming in these settings, exploring legal, societal, political and other factors. In the second part of the book, the authors explore ways in which names mirror and contribute to the construction of identity in areas defined by multiculturalism. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to onomastics, and it will be of interest to scholars working across a number of fields, including linguistics, sociology, anthropology, politics, geography, history, religion and cultural studies.

Author : Guy Puzey
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783094931

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This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of onomastic enquiry. Naming practices are viewed here through a critical lens, demonstrating a high level of political and social engagement in relation to how we name people and places. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own right. Presenting analyses of geographically and culturally diverse perspectives and case studies, the book investigates how names can represent deeper kinds of identity, act as objects of attachment and dependence, and reflect community mores and social customs while functioning as powerful mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. The book will be of interest to researchers in onomastics, sociology, human geography, linguistics and history.

Author : Gabriele vom Bruck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521121712

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This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides comparative ethnography through which we examine the politics of naming; the extent to which names may be property-like; and the power of names themselves, both to fix and to destabilize personal identity. Our purpose is not only to renew anthropological attention to names and naming, but to show how this intersects with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, ritual and daily social life.

Author : Scott Smith-Bannister
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198206637

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Summary: Results of the first large-scale quantitative investigation of naming practices in early modern England.