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Cognitive Onomastics: A Look from Europe. Review of the book: Brendler, S. (Ed.). (2016). Cognitive Onomastics: A Reader. Hamburg: Baar. [PDF]
The review provides a critical survey of the book which is the first anthology on cognitive onomastics. The book comprises articles by ten onomasticians from Austria, Hungary, Germany, Poland, and Finland for the period 2004–2014, selected by the editor ...
Natalia V. Vasilyeva
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Onomastics as an Interdisciplinary Study
Onomastics, although an autonomous discipline, overlaps the subject matter of many other disciplines since name use is central to human activity. In its subfield of terminologies or nomenclatures; moreover, onomastics relates to every discipline, subject
John Algeo, Katie Algeo
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CULTUREMES AND ONOMASTICS [PDF]
The article concerns a new ethnolinguistic concept - culturemes and including some toponyms and anthroponyms. As it turns out, some nomina propria have rich connotations and are carriers of information that allow us to identify identity, attitude to tradition and values, and are also elements of collective memory. Thus, they are culturemes.
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Beszámoló a 27. Nemzetközi Névtudományi Kongresszusról
Report on the 27th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences A 27th ICOS Congress was originally planned to be hosted by Krakow in August 2020.
TAMÁS FARKAS, KITTI HAUBER
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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A proper name in the legal context
The improvement of the legislation in the onymic system is one of the actual problems serving to the development of onomastics according to the demand of the time. The basic means of the regulation in the sphere of the onomastics is the codification of
Reyhan HABİBLİ
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ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu +2 more
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Abstract How immigrants respond to discrimination is a well‐studied topic in political psychology. However, less attention has been paid to whether the impact of discrimination on in‐group identification varies within minority groups and why. In Western Europe, Muslims experience significant discrimination and hostility based on their religious ...
Osman Suntay, Constantin Ruhe
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