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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 158-172, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, while a Pre‐Islamic variety of Arabic was their spoken language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
wiley   +1 more source

What’s Behind a Name? Origins and Meaning of Some of the Recurrent Characters in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld

open access: yesELOPE, 2020
Nominative symbolism in fantasy is a tool to attribute certain traits to literary characters and thus to convey meaning which enriches the readers’ comprehension of the fictitious personality.
Yana Manova-Georgieva
doaj   +1 more source

Solidarity with everyone? Intergroup helping and COVID‐19

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1309-1326, September/October 2023., 2023
Abstract This study investigates peoples' prosocial attitudes and real‐life prosocial behaviour towards different ethnic groups during the COVID‐19 pandemic, taking Germany as an empirical example. In a preregistered multi‐study design, we examined: (a) who receives help, (b) who helps and (c) what explains prosocial behaviour. In study 1, we conducted
Ruta Yemane   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Properhood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
A history of the notion of PROPERHOOD in philosophy and linguistics is given. Two long-standing ideas, (i) that proper names have no sense, and (ii) that they are expressions whose purpose is to refer to individuals, cannot be made to work ...
Coates, Richard
core   +2 more sources

The “Cthulhu network”: The process by which the popular myth was made

open access: yesThe Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 324-340, April 2023., 2023
Abstract In the context of popular culture, the work of Lovecraft deserves a prominent role, not only for its influence on many later authors, but for its profound impact on 20th century popular culture, from music and video games to films, comics, and merchandising.
Jose Luis Arroyo‐Barrigüete
wiley   +1 more source

An Onomastic Banquet of Intercultural Relations. Review of the book: Felecan, O., & Bugheşiu, A. (Eds.). Names and Naming: Multicultural Aspects. Cham: Palgrave, 2021. xxx + 490 p.

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2022
This review critically appraises a weighty, international volume of 29 chapters dealing with the multicultural dimensions of naming practices across four continents drawn up with the collaboration of leading experts and researchers in onomastics.
Leo Loveday
doaj   +1 more source

POETONYMS AS MARKERS OF INTERTEXTUALITY IN ONOMASTIC SPACE OF A LITERARY WORK

open access: diamondТrаnscarpathian Philological Studies, 2020
H.E. Mikhnenko, L.V. Kucheriava
openaire   +2 more sources

Language-based approaches to names in literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
No abstract ...
Cavill, Paul
core   +1 more source

“MOJE IMIĘ TO MILION” – ONIMICZNA LEKTURA PROZY OLGI TOKARCZUK

open access: yesPl.it, 2022
This article examines proper nouns in the works of Olga Tokarczuk. I analyse critical assumptions of literary onomastics and try to understand to what extent the onimic layer of the works of the Polish Nobel laureate can be considered as a system.
Graf Magdalena
doaj   +1 more source

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