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Unveiling the Landscape of Onomastics from 1972 to 2022

Names
Over the past five decades, onomastics has seen remarkable growth with fruitful publications and interdisciplinary collaborations. Despite the abundance of literature, a panoramic view of contribution networks and the evolutionary trajectory of this ...
Siyue Li, Chunyu Kit, Le Cheng
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Names of Chinese Skyscrapers

Names, 2017
This study examines 89 presentation names of skyscrapers in mainland China and shows how skyscraper names collectively relate to the region’s economic status.
Lindsey N. H. Chen
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Onyms in Political Posters: Intersemiotic and Pragmatic Perspectives

Вопросы ономастики, 2023
This article explores the properties of proper names involved in visual political communication from the standpoint of multimodality and functional pragmatics. The material encompasses 198 campaign posters, spanning 1999–2022, which have a verbal element
Svetlana Yu. Pavlina
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Nicknames as sex-role stereotypes [PDF]

, 1996
Nicknames are powerful indicators of attitudes towards gender categories and because of their transient and optional nature, it has been argued that they are more likely to show a closer relationship to ongoing trends in the culture and society than ...
Bosch, B, De Klerk, Vivian A
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Proximity Relationship in Naming Friends' Telephone Numbers: A Socio-onomastic Analysis [PDF]

Naming a friend's phone number can represent a friendship relationship between the owner of the phone number and the person who saves or names the phone number.
Kristianti, Yuliana, Wijana, I Dewa Putu
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Resources and sources in anthroponomastic studies: a review of contemporary references-TRAD [PDF]

, 2022
This paper investigates the various sources that can serve as a starting point for the study of anthroponomastic processes. We examine two types of resources for this kind of research.
Fernández Juncal, María Carmen
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The history, linguistic status and potential of the term dramway

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022
This is a comprehensive investigation of the term dramway, local to south-west Britain and best recorded in Gloucestershire. It does not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary or in well-known national and regional dialect dictionaries.
Richard Coates
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Attitudes towards the adaptation of foreign personal names

Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik
This study examines the attitudes of a group of native Spaniards towards aspects concerning the necessity of adapting foreign names to the official languages of the country and towards the legal regulations governing name assignment and modification ...
Eduardo Tadeu Roque Amaral
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Trend Analysis of Toponymic Competence: Returning to Tépe, Hungary

Вопросы ономастики
The results of the previous research conducted by the author in Tépe, Hungary, in 2013, suggested that the population of the village was acquiring fewer and fewer toponyms. This paper provides empirical confirmation of this phenomenon through a follow-up
Erzsébet Győrffy
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Social Practices Of Personal Naming Among Parents In Rural And Urban Societies In Irbid, Jordan: A Socioonomastics And Morphological Study [PDF]

, 2022
Taking into account the scarcity of research on the practices of personal naming in Jordan, this study examined personal names in rural and urban regions in Irbid, Jordan, in terms of social practices, factors affecting the social practices, and ...
Mohammad Ali Tahat, Abdel Razzaq
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