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Carcassonne G 6, preserving a judicial oath from 833, is an exceptional source for the history of the Spanish March and more generally the workings of power in the Carolingian world. The oath, concerning at first glance a very local dispute, links a body of royal charters with the precepts for the hispani issued by Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and ...
Christoph Haack, Thomas Kohl
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Rufnamen kontrastiv: Ein deutsch-georgischer Vergleich [PDF]
This socio-linguistic and cultural-linguistic article deals with naming fashions and naming strategies in a German-Georgian comparison. It is based on a study conducted simultaneously in Germany and Georgia in 2016 with more than 1.000 study participants,
Barbara Aehnlich +3 more
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Abstract This paper addresses a series of complex and unresolved issues in the historical phonology of West Iranian languages, (Persian, Kurdish, Balochi, and other languages), which display a high degree of irregular, non‐Lautgesetzlich behaviour.
Chundra A. Cathcart
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain
This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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This review critically appraises a weighty, international volume of 29 chapters dealing with the multicultural dimensions of naming practices across four continents drawn up with the collaboration of leading experts and researchers in onomastics.
Leo Loveday
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Results and Perspectives in the Study of Names: A Look from Oxford. Review of the book: Hough, C., & Izdebska, D. (Eds.). (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming. Oxford: Oxford University Press [PDF]
The review provides a critical survey of the recently published volume of The Oxford Handbooks series which deals with the study of proper names.
Sergey O. Goryaev, Dmitry V. Spiridonov
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Appellativized first names as terms of abuse
In the article, three appellativized Finnish personal names are analysed in their use as a derogatory part of communication. In support of the argumentation, two kinds of data are used: corpus data from the internet forum Suomi24 (‘Finland24’) and ...
Maria Sarhemaa
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The article reviews the volume Onomastics between Sacred and Profane (ed. by O. Felecan, 2019), highlighting its contribution to the field of onomastic research as well as to multidisciplinary spheres of knowledge dealing with the concepts of the sacred ...
Anna V. Tsepkova
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Socio-Semiotic Study of Commercial Signs in The City of Saïda [PDF]
: This research focuses on an interdisciplinary field, namely onomastics, and more specifically, commercial onomastics. Its analysis is based on a socio-semiotic method, specific to the interpretation of the meanings of signs, colors and names. Strolling
Mehdaoui SAMIA & Arabi Abd EN NACER
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New Trends in Nordic Socio-onomastics: International Cooperation and Examples of Objectives
The recently founded Nordic network New Trends in Nordic Socio-Onomastics was started as a workshop program in 2018 and 2019, funded by The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The aim was to stimulate innovative research development within the socio-onomastic field by enabling Nordic researchers to come ...
Terhi Ainiala +2 more
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