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Old Norse Nicknames: Origins and Terminology [PDF]
Names, 2019 Nicknames, which occur in all cultures and time periods, play a unique role in highlighting identity. The pool of first names has always been relatively limited, thus most people were identified by their nicknames, especially before surnames became ...
Paul R. Peterson
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The System of Nicknames in a Dialect Speaker’s Onomasticon [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2015 The article aims to provide a multidimensional analysis of the nicknames system in the idiolect of a speaker of one of the Russian dialects of the Middle Ob River area.
Ekaterina A. Berestova
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Nickname Usage in an American High School
Names, 1983 In reply to a questionnaire, 114 boys and 149 girls in a suburban, public high school in the northeastern United States reported on their nicknames. Of the boys, 55% reported having nicknames; of the girls, 40%.
Thomas V. Busse
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Looking Back to Beaver and the Head: Male College Nicknames in the 1950s
Names, 1994 Studies of nicknames have neglected social fraternities, and most have been done by outsiders unable to assess the feelings of those who bear nicknames. I questioned members of a social fraternity to which I belonged in the late 1950s to find out how men
Thomas J. Gasque
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Teachers nicknames: Micro research in onomastics [PDF]
Sinteze, 2012 This paper studies teacher's nicknames in the primary school Vuk Karadžić in Kruševac gathered through a survey for which the students were requested to state a teacher‟s nickname, its originator and motivations.
Kostić-Stamenović Karolina +1 more
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Névtani Értesítő, 2005 Nicknames in village Som The author examines the nicknames from the village Som, a Hungarian settlement in district Beregszász (Ukraine), near the Hungarian border.
András Kovács
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Toward a Theory of Nicknames: A Case for Socio-Onomastics
Names, 1990 To develop a form of analysis for nicknames and nicknaming, we propose a theoretical construct, using our empirical knowledge of nicknames, and posit a uniquely sociological perspective that describes and explains nicknames as aspects of the process of ...
Paul L. Leslie, James K. Skipper
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Recollections of schoolteachers' nicknames
Names, 2004 An investigation of schoolteachers’ nicknames recalled by a sample of 103 students showed that the majority of nicknames were negative in tone and directed mostly at disliked and unpopular teachers.
W. Ray Crozier
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Functional and Language Features of Nicknames of German-Speaking Users of Humorous Internet Sites
Развитие образования, 2020 The author of the article outlines that nicknames represent a relatively new linguistic phenomenon in virtual communication, which has been the subject of many contemporary studies.
Elena V. Zakharova
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MBOJO NICKNAMES: REVIEWING THE CLIPPING PROCESS OF BIMANESE PERSONAL NAMES [PDF]
Celtic, 2020 It is the aim of the study to reveal the distinctive clipping process that takes place in the word formation of nicknames in Mbojo which is one of the major ethnic groups in Bima and its surroundings. Moreover, this study employed qualitative method. The
Rosalin Ismayoeng Gusdian +1 more
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