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Identités en miroir : décryptage des prénoms Younes et Jonas dans « Ce que le jour doit à la nuit »

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This article delves into literary onomastics, focusing on the names "Younes" and "Jonas" in Yasmina Khadra’s "Ce que le jour doit à la nuit". It explores the main character’s experience of a torn identity, caught between two cultures, two origins, and ...
Yamina Taibi Maghraoui
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Book Review [PDF]

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Place Names: Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics. By Francesco Perono Cacciafo and Francesco Cavallaro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. Pp. 298. (Paperback) $34.99.
Daniel Duncan
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Introduction [PDF]

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This chapter introduces the reader to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. It offers a historical introduction to the text corpus and outlines the aims and limitations of the present ...
Waerzeggers, C.
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The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Book review by Sergei Basik of The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place, edited by Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman and Maoz ...
Basik, Sergei
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Toponymic socio-onomastics: Linguistic ideologies in the name(s) of the town of Castelló (de la Ribera) [PDF]

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Els estudis de socioonomàstica sobre noms propis (Bucholtz, 2016; Parada, 2020; Enríquez Duque, 2023) i, ocasionalment, sobre topònims (Hill, 2008; Pipitone, 2019; Regan, 2022) mostren que «els noms són elements lingüístics que no només s’utilitzen com a
Server-Benetó, Natàlia
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Take That, Westlife, and the Backstreet Boys

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This study conducts a multi-level linguistic analysis of a corpus of 316 boyband names. Grammatical and semantic analyses are harnessed to shed light on the discourses surfacing across such names. The discursive patterns identified are in general related
Heiko Motschenbacher
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Identity Framing as Resilience in Selected Nicknames of Nigerian Street Children

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Street children who are forced onto the streets due to oppressive experiences use a variety of strategies, including nicknaming, to cope with street adversities.
Ezekiel Opeyemi Olajimbiti
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Nicknames among Swati clans: A socio-cultural analysis [PDF]

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Journal Article, Faculty of Humanities, North--West University-PotchefstroomNicknames are common in African societies. In Swati families, the use of nicknames is widespread and almost every member of a family possesses one.
Matfunjwa, Muzi   +2 more
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Menu Naming as a Branding Strategy of Indonesian Restaurants in Kuala Lumpur: a Socio-onomastic Approach

open access: yesGHANCARAN: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia
This research aims to identify strategic language components in Indonesian menu items and restaurants as part of a broader branding strategy for Indonesian establishments in Kuala Lumpur. Employing a qualitative approach based on Miles and Huberman’s interactive model alongside descriptive methods, the study ensures a thorough and systematic analysis ...
Himatus Sya’adah   +3 more
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