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The sagas of Icelanders contain a great wealth of personal names both of historical and fictional nature. Personal names function both as identifiers for individuals but also evoke associations that supersede the name’s lexical or identifying meaning ...
Solveig Bollig
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Regional Onomastic Vocabulary in Linguaculturological Studies
The article considers the possibility of implementing an integrated approach to the representation of a toponym in reference systems and databases, taking its linguistic and cultural specifics into account. It is shown that their informative field contains both linguistic and encyclopedic information, it is revealed that various information is encoded ...
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The history, linguistic status and potential of the term dramway
This is a comprehensive investigation of the term dramway, local to south-west Britain and best recorded in Gloucestershire. It does not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary or in well-known national and regional dialect dictionaries.
Richard Coates
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Remarks on the margins of the first Czech regional hydronymic monograph
This review article is devoted to the 2021 book by K. Kovářová “Hydronymy of the Ostravice River basin. Names of rivers, streams, ponds and wells” based on her doctoral thesis of 2019.
Babik, Zbigniew
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Onomastic Space of Ekaterinburg: Level-Based Markers of Regional Identity
The paper examines the onomastic space of the city of Ekaterinburg containing regional linguocultural information through the lens of a three-level model of onymic identity markers as “part of the collective regional identity manifested in general language and speech activity” (Marina V. Golomidova).
Irina T. Vepreva +1 more
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The Cognitive Aspects of the Study of Regional Onomastics
The study is focused on the description of the cognitive aspects of the proper names system analysis, as well as the study of linguistic presentation of onomastic knowledge at all levels of language, which is carried out by means of onomastic categories and is known as the onomastic representation.
Olga Konstantinovna Andryuchshenko +2 more
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WHAT ARE SHIBBOLETHNONYMS AND DO THEY EXIST IN THE SERBIAN LANGUAGE?
Over the last decades, especially in the Slavic countries, onomastic disciplines and their terminologies have significantly improved. Therefore, in ethnonymics – a study of the names of peoples and, in a broader sense, the names of the inhabitants of ...
Milan D. Ivanović
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Borrowings in urbanonyms of Yoshkar-Ola with an anthroponymic component
Introduction. The article considers the borrowed anthroponymic toponyms of the capital of the Republic of Mari El, Yoshkar-Ola, and is carried out in line with the actual problem of modern onomastics, which is a linguistic description of the toponymy of ...
Flera Ya. Khabibullina +1 more
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Mapping Digital Discourses of the Capital Region of Finland
This article discusses the three Finnish city names Helsinki, Espoo, and Vantaa, and the urban discourses that surround them. The study reveals patterns of socio-spatial differentiation by examining what meanings people attach to these capital region cities and investigating how these meanings are expressed in online discourses.
Jantunen, Jarmo Harri +4 more
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Results of Onomastics in Geolinguistics: Expedition Experience
This paper summarises the research material of the ongoing global grant project, “Modern Research of Geolinguistics in Lithuania: Optimisation of Network of Points and Interactive Spread of Dialectal Information.” The project aims to collect the most ...
Ilona Mickienė, Rita Baranauskienė
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