Socio-onomastics
The pragmatics of names
Editors
The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trends within socio-onomastics, interactional onomastics, contact onomastics, folk onomastics, and linguistic landscape studies. The volume is an introduction to these fields – with the introductory chapter giving an overview of, and an update on, recent onomastic study – and in addition offers detailed in-depth analyses of place names, person names, street names and commercial names from different perspectives: historically, as well as from the point of view of the impact of globalization and glocalization. All the chapters focus on the use and function of names and naming, on changes in name usage, and on the reasons for, processes in, and results of names in contact.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 275] 2017. vi, 231 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 June 2017
Published online on 1 June 2017
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Socio-onomastics and pragmaticsTerhi Ainiala and Jan-Ola Östman
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Part I. Tradition, identity and transmission
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Chapter 2. The transmission of toponyms in language shift societiesAud-Kirsti Pedersen
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Chapter 3. Creating identities through the choice of first namesEmilia Aldrin
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Chapter 4. Naming of children in Finnish and Finnish-Norwegian families in NorwayGulbrand Alhaug and Minna Saarelma
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Chapter 5. Names in contact: Linguistic and social factors affecting exonyms and translated namesJarno Raukko
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Part II. The variability of names
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Chapter 6. Orienting to norms: Variability in the use of names for HelsinkiTerhi Ainiala and Hanna Lappalainen
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Chapter 7. Place names in contact: The use of Finnish place names in Swedish contexts in HelsinkiMaria Vidberg
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Chapter 8. Attitudes towards globalized company namesLeila Mattfolk | pp. 165–181
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Chapter 9. Naming businesses – in the context of bilingual Finnish cityscapesVäinö Syrjälä | pp. 183–202
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Chapter 10. The perception of Somali place names among immigrant Somali youth in HelsinkiTerhi Ainiala and Mia Halonen | pp. 203–226
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Subject index | pp. 227–231
“The volume as a whole provides an interesting and refreshing view of onomastics; the geographical focus on Finland and its Nordic neighbors brings the unexpected benefit of a view of the linguistic diversity, language contacts, and ongoing globalization that have shaped one area of the world. [...] Socio-onomastics should clearly prove of interest to scholars of names and naming, but also to those in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology.”
Susan Meredith Burt, Illinois State University, on Linguist List 29.3569
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics