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Hodno obdivu nebo cejchem kriminálního živlu? Z historie příjmení a volby křestních jmen „světských“ [PDF]
Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2021 The presented paper concerns the choice of first names and the issue of surnames of Czech nomadic people in the so-called long 19th century. The statistics of the most common first names of nomadic comedians, shopkeepers and grinders came from the ...
Hanka Tlamsová
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Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The author examines the data collected during field studies of the Slovenian ethnic minority in Italy, in order to retrace the use of anthroponyms (names and surnames) formed in this region in the 20th–21st centuries.
Maria V. Yasinskaya
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Birth Order, Gender, and Naming Preferences in Contemporary Poland
Names, 2023 The paper investigates how birth order and gender jointly influence naming decisions among Polish parents. The impact of birth order on the choice of first names has been extensively documented in historical and anthropological studies worldwide, but it
Paweł Tomanek
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Romanian-Ukrainian Anthroponymic Contact on the Interstate Border along the Tisza River
Names, 2023 The area between Romania and Ukraine has been the site of frequent language contact for many centuries. This contact has impacted the onomastic store of both nations.
Oliviu Felecan, Adelina Emilia Mihali
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 A person’s name may activate social category information, which has been shown to lead to stereotyping and discrimination in various contexts. However, no previous research has investigated the influence of names on more basic processes of person ...
Marleen Stelter, Juliane Degner
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What's in a Name? First Names as Facial Attributes [PDF]
2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2013 This paper introduces a new idea in describing people using their first names, i.e., the name assigned at birth. We show that describing people in terms of similarity to a vector of possible first names is a powerful description of facial appearance that can be used for face naming and building facial attribute classifiers.
Huizhong Chen +2 more
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Names, 2014 Jean Baudrillard’s theory on the nature of simulation proposes that a shift from reality to representation progresses until the artificial surpasses the authentic.
Dorothy Dodge Robbins
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From Nordic to Hispanic - Shift in a Family’s Given Names
Onomástica desde América Latina, 2023 This article examines historical changes in naming practices through first names in a region of Argentina with a history of migration from Northern Europe. First names in a migrant family are used as a case study and different periods compared. The data
Eeva Sippola
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MultilingualesThis paper aims to compare first names in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). A set of research questions are raised, bearing on the similarities and differences in naming conventions. In pursuit of these aims, a set of research questions
Fouad Boulkroun
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Criticón, 2020 Swashbuckling Comedy, Los balcones de Madrid stages the commonplace of the old fugy’s greed thwarted by the wiles of lovers who do everything to meet, in the purest Ovidian tradition. The multiple comings and goings between two balconies of two adjoining
Philippe Meunier
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