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Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics
John C. Maher
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 49] 2021
► pp. 195–208

Chapter 14
Names and nicknames

Personal recognition, solidarity and social management

Article outline
  • Names: The confluence of past and present
  • The Eastern name order
  • Personal names
  • Family names
  • Utamakura : Poetic place-names
  • Nicknaming
  • The structure of nicknames
    • SOUND CHANGES
  • The origin of nicknaming
  • Conclusion
    • Appendix.List of names and nicknames (1–2 year, M. K. Junior High School, Tokyo)