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Child of an outcast: cultural context of naming among the Nsirimo (Igbo) people in Nigeria

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
Among the Igbo people in South-eastern Nigeria, personal names are bestowed based on requirements of customs and traditions as a mark of identity to individuate its bearers and confer unique personhood on them.
Akumjika C. Michael, Eyo O. Mensah
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Names, Grades, and Metamorphosis: A Small-Scale Socio-onomastic Investigation into the Effects of Ethnicity and Gender-Marked Personal Names on the Pedagogical Assessments of a Grade School Essay

open access: yesNames, 2017
In this small-scale, mixed-method investigation, the potential presence of school teacher and teacher trainees’ name-based biases in reaction to schoolchildren’s first names was investigated in two experiments. In the first, German school teachers were asked to qualitatively and quantitatively assess an authentic literary essay written by a monolingual
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A synta-onomastic analysis of Yorùbá nicknames of selected English Premier League football clubs [PDF]

open access: yes
The main thrust of this research is to analyse the use of nicknames as an instrument of banter among fans of the English Premier League and sportscasters in Yorubaland.
Rabiu, Ridwan Akinkunmi
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A mentális térképezés helynév-szociológiai alkalmazásáról [The use of mental mapping in socio-onomastics]

open access: yesNévtani Értesítő, 2015
The paper aims to introduce a new method of examining the variations of, and the use of toponyms: mental mapping. The mental or cognitive map is an interdisciplinary notion used for example in psychology and geography, and refers to the representation of space in the mind.
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Communication challenges experienced by migrants with cancer: A comparison of migrant and English-speaking Australian-born cancer patients. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Expect, 2017
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Hypocorisms Meet Sound Symbolism: A Socio-Onomastic Study of Spanish Hypocoristic Forms of Personal Names in -i

open access: yesВопросы Ономастики
The suffix -i has been regarded as a gender-neutral morpheme that communicates affection in Spanish. Previous studies have shown this diminutive morpheme to be more productive in relation to female hypocorisms. There are, however, many Spanish proper names for which there exist pairs of alternative hypocorisms (e.g. Antonia > Toña/Toñi; Antonio >
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