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Socio-Onomastics of Distorted Names: Nicknaming Practices among Punjabi Speakers in Pakistan

Voprosy Onomastiki
Due to hierarchical power relations and the difficulty of confronting others or expressing disdain explicitly in small rural communities, nicknames and spoiled names can be an overt avenue for venting displeasure, ridiculing, expressing social inequality,
Mehvish Riaz
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Socio-Onomastics: The Pragmatics of Names

Names, 2020
Pleasantly, this reference does not center around Anglo-American contexts. Instead, as editors Teri Ainiala and Jan-Ola Ostman explain in Chapter 1, the book’s overall introduction, this collection...
I. M. Nick
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Cognitive Socio-Onomastics; A New Domain in Interdisciplinary Studies [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2016
The present paper aimed to introduce cognitive socio-onomastics, an emerging scientific and research interdisciplinary and a branch of cognitive sociolinguistics.
B. Zandi, B. Ahmadi
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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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Personal Naming in Baneh, a Socio-Onomastic Study [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2018
This paper deals with the impact of sociocultural changes on the corpus of personal names in Baneh from a socio-onomstic perspective. Corpus of personal names means the body of names selected by parents in the target society to name their children.
Behzad Ahmadi, Bahman Zandi, arezoo najafian, Belghis Rovshan   +3 more
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A socio-onomastic study of the 2022 FIFA World Cup football teams’ nicknames [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture, 2023
Despite growing research interest into the language of sports, little research investigates football teams’ nicknames significance and fan attitudes. The objective of this study is two-fold: to explore Jordanian youth attitudes and views towards these ...
Sameer Naser Olimat, Dana Khalid Mahadin, Kholod Naser Olimat   +2 more
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A Socio-Onomastics Study of a Church Naming Content on legit.ng

Journal of Linguistics, Culture and Communication
This paper is a Socio-onomastic analysis of a church-naming content, posted on www. Legit.ng , an online forum where young Africans share contents of all kinds. The content consists of the signboards and programme flyers of some hypothetical churches in Nigeria.
James Oladunjoye Faleye, Eunice Olatokunbo Fajobi, Ibrahim Esan Olaosun   +2 more
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The Representation of People in the Ibibio Anthroponymic System: A Socio-Onomastic Investigation

Languages
In the African cultural context and beyond, personal names are not just unique forms of identifying and individuating their bearers; they also provide relevant windows that resonate with the people’s worldviews, values, and cosmology.
Eyo Mensah, Kirsty Rowan, Mfon Ekpe
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Socio(historical) onomastics through the languagephilosophical lens, with reference to early New England titles of civility

Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik, 2021
This paper offers a number of semiological reflections on proper names. It contrasts the Saussurean approach to names with the related socio-onomastic (i.e.
Adrian Pablé
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The social and political life of names and naming

Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik, 2021
This concluding commentary critically and constructively engages with the articles in this first multidisciplinary issue of the Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics.
Reuben Rose-Redwood
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