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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 +2 more
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Socio-Onomastics of Distorted Names: Nicknaming Practices among Punjabi Speakers in Pakistan
Voprosy OnomastikiDue 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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The Representation of People in the Ibibio Anthroponymic System: A Socio-Onomastic Investigation
LanguagesIn 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 O Mensah
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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 +3 more
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Do We Look Like Our Siblings' Names? A Socio-Onomastic Perspective on the Face-Name Matching Effect. [PDF]
Int Rev Soc PsycholThis Registered Report pertains to the face-name matching effect (Zwebner et al., 2017) according to which people can match the first name to an unknown target face above chance level. The purpose of the Registered Report was twofold: (i) to perform an independent conceptual replication of the face-name matching effect, and (ii) to establish the nature
Verheyen S, Van den Berckt J, Heyman T.
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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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