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A multi-factor approach to understanding socio-economic segregation in European capital cities [PDF]

, 2015
The research leading to the results presented in this chapter has received funding from the Estonian Research Council (Institutional Research Grant IUT no.
Musterd, Sako, van Ham, Maarten, Tammaru, Tiit, Marcińczak, Szymon   +3 more
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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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The history of Onomastics

, 2021
Annotation: This article deals with the history of onomastics. Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. An orthonym is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Key words:
Sakbaeva Muxabbat Abduraxmonovna1
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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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'Our family came to be with this name'

Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik
The article focuses on surname choices among families in Denmark, seeking to add a new perspective by proposing that the choices and narratives of surnames contain information about and reflect family identity formation as well as family and gender ...
Katrine Kehlet Bechsgaard
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Exploring the Sociolinguistic Dynamics of Naming Motivations among Telugu Catholics

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This study focuses on exploring the motivations behind given names among the Telugu Catholics. By distributing survey questionnaires, data were collected on participants' motivations, aiming to generate qualitative insights.
Smita Joseph
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A Note on Selected Craft Beer Brand Names

Names, 2018
This note addresses selectively the names of craft beers produced by U.S. microbreweries. It considers the following points: (1) a brief history of beer, (2) the rise of the microbrewery in the U.S., (3) a definition of microbrewery, (4) a brief ...
Frank Nuessel
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Evolution of Anthroponyms in an Area of Linguistic Transition: A Socio-Onomastic Study

Names, 2018
This study analyses the evolution of the anthroponymical repertoire of a municipal council located in the west of the province of Vizcaya, in the Spanish Basque Country. It has traditionally been a Spanish-speaking area, although it is now clearly influenced by the language policies of the Basque Autonomous Community to which it belongs, where recent ...
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Literary onomastics and stylistic onomastics [PDF]

, 2016
The paper deals with the state of research on literary/stylistic onomastics as an auxiliary science of stylistics. The typology of styles allows the inclusion of research on stylistic nomenclature within the research on text style, an author’s individual
Lech-Kirstein, Danuta
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In-game Toponyms: Telling the Story and Building the Video Game World

, 2023
This article deals with video game toponyms as a representation of a toponymic concept – a unit of onomastic knowledge concerning spatial and geographical characteristics of a location.
Kuzmenko, Oleksandra
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