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Author | : Carole Hough |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 801 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019163042X |
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In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few decades. The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming strategies adopted for them.
Author | : Elizabeth M. Rajec |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Reference |
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Author | : Grace Alvarez-Altman |
Publisher | : University Press of Amer |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780819166104 |
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This volume celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Literary Onomastics Conference. The 21 essays presented here show how the study of names can illuminate works of all ages and genres. The essays range over epics and comic books; embrace Shakespeare, Moliere Kafka, Carl Sandburg, and Toni Morrison, among many others; discuss the histories of names and their sounds; reveal how names identify a moment in time and how they communicate across the ages. Co-published with the American Name Society.
Author | : Elizabeth M. Rajec |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Reference |
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Author | : Stanley Lieberson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300083859 |
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What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. He disputes the commonly-held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal shifts.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Frédérique Biville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Download What's in a Name? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; the significant suppression or changing of names; the religious and historical significances of names; the uses of names in literary catalogues; names as devices to structure a group of shorter poems.
Author | : Frank Nuessel |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1992-09-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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An introduction and research guide to onomastics, this book covers the major areas of name study in individual chapters on personal names, place names, acronyms, brand names and trade names. Every topic comprises a discussion of underlying principles as well as numerous illustrative examples.
Author | : Serge Bredart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1134779569 |
Download The Cognitive Psychology of Proper Names Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember her name." Lots of people have difficulty remembering people's names, even though they can easily recall other information about the person. As memory and retrieval processes are central to cognitive psychology and neuropsychology the study of proper names makes a fascinating and practical focus of study. Using an information processing approach, Valentine, Brennen and Bredart consider evidence from speech production, face recognition and word recognition to develop a new functional model of the production and recognition of people's names. This book will be valuable to all those studying cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology and linguistics. It makes a suitalbe text for higher level undergraduates and postgraduates and those engaged in research.
Author | : Alleen Pace Nilsen |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2007-07-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0810866854 |
Download Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book shows how authors of young adult literature use the creation of names for people, places, events, inventions, animals, and imaginary concepts as one of their most important literary techniques. Chapters address how authors use names to stretch readers' emotions, to reveal ethnic values and differences, to create 'other worlds,' and to establish tone. Other chapters focus on how authors use names to help readers remember who is who, such as J. K. Rowling in the Harry Potter books, or to communicate separate messages to adults and to young readers, as exemplified by Richard Handler in the Lemony Snicket books. Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature equips readers with the interest and the skill to make similar observations about names and naming when they read other books. Looking at the names an author has chosen to use is a wonderful first step in introducing readers to the concept of literary criticism as something to help readers get more pleasure and information from their reading. Public and school librarians, college instructors of young adult literature, teachers of creative writing, high school English teachers, and anyone else who is interested in young adult literature will find this book extremely interesting.