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‘To assume another name’: Race, gender, family and name changing in New York City, 1887–2012
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 218-233, March 2025.Abstract The name‐change petitions housed in the New York City Civil Court allow us to see the ways that Jewish families, cisgender women and transgender people throughout the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries used state mechanisms to challenge institutionalised antisemitism and traditional definitions of family and gender. At the same time, however,
Kirsten Fermaglich
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Population, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2025.ABSTRACT Transnational family research documented well the challenges that migrated adult children experience when they want to provide care to their stayed‐behind families. Yet similar results are provided by research on long‐distance carers who are not international migrants.
David Schiefer, Magdalena Nowicka
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 463-478, November 2024.Abstract This paper aims to provide a critical survey of classical Latin literature—with a few insights into slightly later (i.e. Augustan or early imperial) literature—as transmitted in ancient manuscripts dating prior to the third century, i.e.
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
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Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 136-154, November 2024.Abstract Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim (‘the City of [the god] Kahl’) is the Ancient South Arabian name of the modern site of Qaryat al‐Fāw. This compound refers to the tutelary deity of the city, in this case, a god called Kahl. However, the identity of this Kahl is obscure.
Juan de Lara
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Social Science Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 5, Page 1505-1514, September 2024.Abstract Objective Previous studies on charitable giving have emphasized the importance of socioeconomic status in explaining why individuals choose to donate or not to donate money. Other explanations, such as social capital or local contexts, have also been investigated, but these perspectives are rarely combined and tested against an actual ...
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Socio-Semiotic Study of Commercial Signs in The City of Saïda [PDF]
Akofena: This research focuses on an interdisciplinary field, namely onomastics, and more specifically, commercial onomastics. Its analysis is based on a socio-semiotic method, specific to the interpretation of the meanings of signs, colors and names. Strolling
Mehdaoui SAMIA & Arabi Abd EN NACER
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Names, 2001 I first heard of the American Name Society over 30 years ago when I was preparing to take a graduate course in the history of the English language. I had come upon a brief biography of my new professor, who had the imposing name of Wilhelm Fritz Hermann Nicolaisen, and noted that he was a member of the American Name Society. At the time my ignorance of
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Névtani Értesítő, 2014 This paper discusses the position of Onomastics in the curriculum of Hungarian higher education in Cluj-Napoca, an essential component of which is the widely-known research programme examining Transylvanian dialects.
Csomortáni, Magdolna
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Controversial article on geonomastics [PDF]
Meta-Carto-Semiotics, 2010 This article aims to discuss, firstly, the substantiation of a new discipline within the applied onomastics with a short excursion into the historical domain, its relationship to other sub-disciplines, then its difference from toponymics, and finally to ...
Evgeny Shokhenmayer
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Open Journal of Humanities, 2019 The essay examines the relationship between the onomastics of anthroponyms in La Coscienza di Zeno and analyzes the profound meaning of the text. In particular, it will be shown that in the plot of the novel, the onomastics supported by textual clues and
Daniela Privitera
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