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Mental mapping in socio-onomastics [PDF]

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Győrffy, Erzsébet
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First names in social and ethnic contexts: A socio-onomastic approach

Language & Communication, 2020
Abstract This paper presents an account of how first name choice is influenced by socio-ethnic changes during the transitional period between two Iranian governments. Analyzing 4,800 names in four ethnically-contrastive provinces, this socio-onomastic study shows that, in Iran, names serve a social identity function.
Peyman G.P. Sabet, Grace Zhang
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Socio-onomastics

2017
The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields.
Östman Jan-Ola Ingemar, Ainiala Terhi
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A socio-onomastic analysis of some government school names in the Vhembe District in Limpopo province

South African Journal of African Languages, 2022
Naming is a noteworthy cultural practice, not only because of its ability to create a sense of continuity over time, but also through its capacity for changing and challenging lines of identity. Thus, naming is a powerful vehicle for promoting identification with the past and locating oneself within wider networks of memory.
Itani P Mandende, Madoda P Cekiso
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The ‘dialect myth’ and socio-onomastics. The names of the castles of Bellinzona in an integrational perspective

Language & Communication, 2009
Abstract In this paper, it is argued that name variation and change cannot be studied in a satisfactory way within a variationist sociolinguistic framework, as the latter cannot ultimately cope with the psychological complexity involved in human communication.
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Karanga bovonyms in the Nyajena area of Masvingo: a socio-onomastic perspective

African Identities, 2022
Zvinashe Mamvura   +2 more
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