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We Live Surrounded by Pigs: Naming the Space [PDF]
The geographical nickname is a complex entity, both geographic, social and linguistic. The study is a sociolinguistic one. It focuses on the relation between language and space in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Romania.
Dan Ungureanu
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Ragadványnév-adási motivációk budapesti fiatalok körében [PDF]
Motivations for giving nicknames among the young in Budapest This paper carries out a motivation-based categorisation of the nicknames of 200 young people (100 females and 100 males) living in Budapest.
Éva Heltovics
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Creation of Internet Relay Chat Nicknames and Their Usage in English Chatroom Discourse [PDF]
In a chat discourse it is not always clear who is chatting with whom; automatic discourse analysis is especially problematic. It is important to identify the users' nicknames in the written discourse to find out the receivers of the chat messages.
Ecker, Robert
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Peculiarities of Nickname Semantics in Veliuona Region: Primary Nicknames
The article focuses on the analysis of 425 primary nicknames recorded in Veliuona vicinity aiming to deduce their most common semantic features. The semantics of nicknames, their origins and common connotations are examined in greater detail.
Ilona Mickienė, Rita Baranauskienė
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Aspects of Nicknames Among the Tumbuka
Nicknames generally show closer relationships to their users' subculture than do more fixed parts of language. This study looks at nicknames and nickname use among the Tumbuka of southern Africa-how they are formed and how they function in Tumbuka ...
Themba Moyo
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Zoomorphic Pattern in Collective Nicknames among the Residents of the Russian North [PDF]
The paper studies collective nicknames of the residents of the Russian North (Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions) to describe a productive zoomorphic naming pattern.
Anna A. Makarova, Yulia B. Popova
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Nicknames as a fragment of the language picture of the world of the Crimean Tatars [PDF]
The research focuses on nicknames sourced from our survey, as well as on those received from Crimean Tatar periodical press through which this type of anthroponyms have been studied, interpreted and systematized. The purpose of the study is to select,
Emine Ganieva, Akhtem Mazinov
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The System of Nicknames in a Dialect Speaker’s Onomasticon [PDF]
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
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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Nick – tożsamość w Internecie [PDF]
Nicknames, also treated as usernames, pseudonyms or as a subclass of pseudonyms, denote non-official personal names in German. They are names given by people themselves and therefore mostly self-chosen and not adopted by others in digital network ...
Joanna Dubiec-Stach
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