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A Dictionary of First Names

open access: diamondNames, 2018
Christine De Vinne
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Hodno obdivu nebo cejchem kriminálního živlu? Z historie příjmení a volby křestních jmen „světských“ [PDF]

open access: yesStudia 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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Referring to women using feminine and neuter gender

open access: yesNordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik, 2021
In German, gender is a strongly grammaticalized category and has the function of indicating grammatical agreement between syntactic units. Usually, each noun is assigned one of three grammatical genders.
Simone Busley, Damaris Nübling
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Romanian-Ukrainian Anthroponymic Contact on the Interstate Border along the Tisza River

open access: yesNames, 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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Recognizing Emily and Latisha: Inconsistent Effects of Name Stereotypicality on the Other-Race Effect

open access: yesFrontiers 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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The Etymology of the Names Pipunculus Latreille and Dorilas Meigen (Diptera, Pipunculidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
(excerpt) There are at least two good reasons for understanding the etymology of scientific names. The first is to satisfy the natural curiosity about the history of the terms we use, and to gain an entree into the mind of the man ~.ho fist used a name ...
Cameron, H. D.
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Whiteness of A Name: Is “White” the Baseline? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the hypothesis that Whiteness is used as a normative standard when comparing a variety of first names. Design/methodology/approach– Respondents (full- and part-time business students) evaluated names that ...
Cotton, John L.   +2 more
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Fictional Names Masquerading as Literary-Historical Monikers: Onomastic Simulacra in A. S. Byatt’s Possession

open access: yesNames, 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

open access: yesOnomástica 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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Kazakh first names and changing naming practices

open access: hybridEurasian Journal of Philology: Science and Education, 2019
J.S, Smagulova, U.I Parmanova
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