Subject index

• adaptation ch. 5, ch. 6
  • cultural, subcultural 93, 123, 218
  • morphological28
  • onomastic 28, 69, 93
  • phonological 14, 26, 28, 93, 99, 110, 113, 118
  • semantic 28, 122
  • to interviewer30
  • to local naming system 89, 93, 97, 98, 123
  • to other language161
  • unadapted name loans 155, 162

• address
  • geographical a.16
  • terms of1

• adolescents 15, 211, 215, 218 ; see also youth language

• advertising and advertisements 171, 173, 187, 191

• age 8, 9, 30, 47, 57, 58, 60, 66, 115, 116, 118, 121, 131, 141, 156, 205

• agriculture36

• alternative names 83, 89, 95, 96, 103, 107, 114–121, 134

• anthropology16

• anthroponomastics, anthroponyms, anthroponymy and anthroponymity 3, 7, 69 ; see also personal names

• appellative 5, 15, 165, 217

• assimilation32
  • policy23

• associative meaning 11, 51, 53, 56, 84, 90, 103, 111, 139–145, 149, 158

• attitudes 1, 2, 11–15, 30–36, 39–41, 49, 62, 93, 112–121, 129–131, 139, 141, 157, 165–180, 203, 204, 211–214

• authorities see laws

• authorship 104, 184, 186

• Biblical names 73–75, 79

• biculturalism see under cultural

• bilingualism 13–15, ch. 2, ch. 4, 94, 99–101, 110, 112, 123, 132, ch. 7, 166, 167, 171, 174, 175, ch. 9

• birth ads48

• brands and brand names 170, 187, 188, 192, 199

• business names see commercial names

• bynames 3, 9

• categorization 3, 10, 12, 49, 130, 134, 155–157, 161, 185, 187, 193–196

• analysis47

• cognitive 1–2, 143

• ethnic37

• lifestyle178

• native vs. non-native137

• onomastic 2, 12, 13, 25, 26, 51, 69, 72–77, 85, 87, 99, 110, 155, 170, 198, 200

• social 46, 54, 62

• class see social class

• code switching 112, 113

• cognition 2, 179

• colonialism and colonization 3, 22, 111, 121

• commercial names 2, 3, 6, 11, 12, 15, 158, ch. 8, ch. 9

• communicative function 4, 6, 16, 94, 116, 132, 184, 187–189, 197

• community 3, 4, 7–9, 11, 21–27, 29–41, 111, 149, 165–169, 171, 180, 183–185, 193, 195, 197, 199, 200, 214
  • bilingual see bilingualism
  • indigenous 22, 23, 34
  • international 105, 111
  • names of39

• company names see commercial names

• compounded names 25, 26, 105, 107, 108, 123

• conflict 60, 148

• connotation 40, 139, 149, 186, 199, 214, 215

• contact onomastics 13, 155, 162 ; see also language contact

• construction of place 183, 200
  • syntactic c.143

• conversation analysis 10, 47, 130 ; see also interaction

• corporate names 192–198

• corpus planning see name planning

• creativity 46, 52, 53, 57–60, 75, 178, 184, 188, 197, 199

• cross-alphabetic 102, 104

• cultural background, context, heritage, setting and tradition 1, 2, 6, 9, 14, 15, 21, 25, 37–41, 59, 64–66, 70, 75, 89, 94, 110, 165, 168, 169, 178, 184, 187

• cultural compromise, contact, encounter, familiarity, exchange, orientation and cross-culturality 1, 13, 52, 56, 69, 70, 81–84, 90, 94, 97–102, 105–109, 111–113, 119, 122, 123, 165

• cultural convention51

• cultural identity see under identity

• cultural names 3, 9, 40

• cultural practice, register and viewpoint 7, 12, 88, 186

• cultural stigma40

• definite descriptions 1, 6

• deixis and deictic 1, 6, 10

• demography 64–66

• descriptive names 5, 11, 192

• dialect 23, 27, 33, 34, 36, 144, 204

• discourse 64–66, 168, 205
  • discourse analysis 165, 166, 169, 179
  • racist d. 211, 213
  • marker see pragmatic particle

• domain gain and loss 2, 33, 35, 36, 167

• economy 111, 166, 167, 170, 175, 179, 184–187, 199, 200, 205, 206 ; see also commercial

• education 11, 47, 51, 57, 58, 60, 65, 66, 119–121, 205

• emotive meaning 13, 46, 66, 208

• endonyms 4, 93–123

• ethnicity 4, 8, 32, 34–37, 39, 40, 70, 171, 175, 211, 213, 215, 218

• ethnography 132, 145, 166, 188, 200, 217

• etymology 2, 16, 56, 94, 97, 188
  • etymological meaning5

• exclusion38

• exonyms 1, 4, 13, 14, 93–123

• exographs 14, 93, 102–107, 113, 122

• exophones 14, 93, 96, 106, 107, 112

• exoticism 14, 93, 103, 112, 113, 119, 121, 123

• expressive meaning 45, 51, 63, 168

• family, family names and names in family 4, 48–63, 71–89, 147

• farm names 38, 39

• fashion 8, 11, 51, 52, 56, 103

• first names 3, 4, 8, 11, 13, ch. 3, ch. 4, 98

• folk dialectology204

• folk linguistics see folk onomastics

• folk onomastics 11, 15, 156, 203, 204, 222, 223

• functionality 49, 53, 111

• gender 8, 9, 36, 47, 57–60, 65, 66, 104
  • grammatical g.104

• generation 10, 24, 32–34, 37, 65, 205

• globalization 4, 11, 15, 50, 52, 53, 55–60, 69, 75, 77, 89, 94, 95, 97–101, 105, 107, 111, 113, 116, 118–121,165–180, 190–192, 196, 197, 199, 205

• glocalization167

• group identity see under identity

• heritage see cultural background

• hobbies9

• human geography185

• human phenomenon3

• hybrid names 15, 155–157, 161, 174

• hydronyms3

• identification 1, 3, 37, 52, 130, 145, 149, 161, 170, 184, 185, 191–198
  • identifying function and meaning 4, 5, 94, 111, 148, 159, 184, 186, 193
  • self-identification135

• identity 1, 12–14, ch. 3, ch. 4, 137, 145, 147, 149, 183, 184, 187
  • act of 45, 64, 66
  • commercial i. 184, 186, 188, 197, 199
  • community i. 11, 65, 145, 149, 179, 184–186, 206
  • construction 12, 45, 46, 52–55, 60–66
  • contradictory i.53
  • cultural i. 6, 70, 78, 82, 87, 89
  • ethnic i. 32, 34, 35–37, 39
  • group i. see community identity
  • interactional i. 10, 64, 149
  • local i. see community identity
  • levels 64–66
  • linguistic i. 184, 187, 200
  • linguistic landscape i. 184–186
  • native/non-native i. 137, 149
  • non-stable i.62
  • personal i.147
  • roles86
  • social i. 2, 15, 31, 35, 130, 184, 204
  • societal i. see community identity

• identity-theoretical onomastics55

• ideology 1, 13, 37, 46, 66, 166, 168, 180

• immigration 203, 205, 211 ; see also migration

• implicitness 6, 11, 15, 49, 136, 159, 161, ch. 8

• index, indexical, indexing 50–52, 63, 64, 137, 149, 184, 186, 200
  • indexical field51

• indigenous community and language 4, 22, 23, 34, 96, 100

• interaction 1, 2, 10, 12, 31, 47, 60–66, 131, 134, 148, 149, 157, 168, 169, 217, 218, 223

• interactional linguistics10

• interactional onomastics10

• interactional sociolinguistics 47, 51, 169

• international orientation and names see globalization

• Internet 82, 95, 167

• interview methodology 7–10, 15, 26, 30, ch. 3, ch. 4, ch. 6, ch. 7, ch. 8, 200, ch. 10

• intimacy65

• language community see community

• language contact 11, 13, ch. 2, ch. 5, ch. 7, ch. 8, ch. 9, ch. 10

• language policy and planning 16, 23, 37–41, 111, 119, 158

• language visibility 15, 39, 145, 156, 159, ch. 9

• language shift 13, ch. 2

• laws, regulations, registers and authorities 38, 73, 86, 114, 120, 158, 169, 171, 188, 189, 192, 200

• lexicon 3, 24, 27, 32–36, 38, 41, 94, 144, 196
  • lexical meaning 5, 30, 40, 94, 108

• life style 8, 47, 53–56, 58, 170, 176, 178, 179

• linguistic landscape 1, 15, 166, 175, ch. 9, 204

• linguistic community see community

• literate cultures 33, 35

• loanwords 168, 172, 177, 180, 196
  • loan name and name loan 28, ch. 7

• maiden names89

• maps 26, 29, 38, 39, 95, 106, 156, 157, 159, 215

• marriage 34, 71

• matronyms see metronyms

• meaning 4, 5, 30, 46, 53, 63, 72, 73, 94, 99, 107, 149, 175, 185, 215, 220 ; see also under specific types of meaning

• meaninglessness thesis 29, 40

• metalinguistic use 10, 129, 131, 148, ch. 7, 206

• metaphoric names206

• metronyms84

• middle names 70, 77, 82, 84, 85, 87–90

• migration 3, 23, 41 ; see also immigration

• minority and minority languages 13, ch. 2, 72, 100, 123, 155, 156, 166, 171, 185, 188, 190, 199, 204, 207
  • culture 65, 185
  • ethnic4
  • indigenous96

• morphology 33, 97, 104, 111, 214
  • morphological adaptation and re-analysis 28, 110

• multilingualism ch. 2, 94, 112, 170, 171, 184, 215 ; see also bilingualism

• multimodality 187, 188

• multiple personal names 77, 85, 87

• name choice 10, 11, 13, 14, ch. 3, ch. 4, 94, 98, 105, 112, 113, 114–122, 131, 141, 147–149, 167, 170, 175, 176, 184, 187, 199

• name formation 5, 101

• name planning 16, 158

• name stock 73, 77, 78

• name transmission 13, 14, ch. 2, 105, 106

• name uniqueness 48, 52, 53, 55–58, 62

• name usage 2, 7, 11, 14–16, 106, ch. 6, ch. 7, 193, ch. 10

• name variants 7–10, 14, 78–82, ch. 5, ch. 6, 207

• names
  • as property213
  • functions of 2–6, 10, 13, 24, 40, 49, 53, 69, 72, 75, 83, 89, 94, 97, 111, 148, 159, 167, 170, 183, 184, 186, 189, 193, 196, 197, 200
  • in contact see contact onomastics
  • introduced names 161, 206

• national and nationalism 4, 72, 73, 87, 89, 111, 188, 191, 192, 199 ; see also globalization

• nicknames9

• occupation9

• odonyms see street names

• official language 38, 39, 95–97, 99–101, 118–120, 156, 166, 171, 188, 199

• official vs. unofficial names 3, 9–15, 39, 47, 114, 118, ch. 6, ch. 7, 195, 197, 199, 200, 205–207

• official signs 15, ch. 9

• onomastic heritage98

• onomasticon 8, 31–33, 36, 60, 174

• onomastics (as discipline) 2–5

• orthography and spelling 17, 28, 38, 48, 49, 52, 55, 56, 64, 66, 78–82, 96, 101–107, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 122, 215

• patronyms, patronymics and patronymicon 4, 84

• perception of names 15, ch. 10

• personal names 2, 3, 8, 9, 11–14, 27, ch. 3, ch. 4, 103, 170, 178, 194, 196 ; see also anthroponyms, bynames, first names, metronyms, middle names, nicknames, patronyms, surnames

• philosophical approaches 1, 6, 29

• phonological translation 14, 93, 95, 97, 99, 107, 110, 118

• phonology, phonological adaptation and transmission 14, 26–33, 40, 41, ch. 5, 133, 214

• place names 2–5, 7, 8–12, 14, 15, ch. 2, ch. 5, ch. 6, ch. 7, 178, 184, 191, ch. 10 ; see also commercial names, street names, toponyms

• play and playfulness 52, 60, 84, 121

• politeness 1, 37

• politics, political and socio-politics 4, 14, 25, 34, 65, 93, 99, 113–115, 120, 121

• popular culture 54, 205

• population registers see laws

• positioning 14, ch. 3, ch. 6, 179, 185, 186
  • social positioning 4, ch. 3

• power 25, 31, 94, 101, 183, 185, 190

• practice
  • discourse, language and naming p. 12, 31, 48, 87, 88, 90, 112, 168, 172, 188, 189

• pragmatic and pragmatics 1–16, 30, 50–59, 94, 97, 114, 122, 157, 165, 169
  • pragmatic particle 169, 176

• prestige 22, 24, 31, 36, 37, 54, 145, 149, 205

• presupposition144

• profession 8, 9, 65

• pronouns 6, 54

• pronunciation 38, 82, 90, 96, 102–104, 106, 107, 112, 113, 115–122, 144, 168, 172, 175, 215

• prototypes 99, 109, 207

• public spacech. 9

• referential meaning and function 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 93, 132, 143, 159, 184, 208, 214, 220

• registered names see laws

• regulations see laws

• religion 4, 11, 54, 56

• renaming121

• resistance 14, 93, 210

• rights 4, 100 ; see also laws

• road signs 37, 39, 110, 118, 166 ; see also signs and signage

• rural names 8–10, 12, 100

• saints’ names75

• school see education

• self-
  • conscious223
  • identification135
  • esteem 37, 39
  • perception 35, 36
  • report 14, 129, 130, 148

• semantics, semantic adaptation, transfer, transmission, translation and transparency 5, 7, 12, 14, 24, 25–28, 30, 31, 40, 72, 93, 94, 99, 106–110, 122, 123, 158, 214 ; see also meaning

• sense of place191

• sense relations 6, 142, 145

• settlement names 3, 9, 29, 38

• sex 71, 90 ; see also gender

• siblings56

• signs and signage 4, 5, 15, 25, 37, 39, 100, 110, 118, 123, 156, 166, 167, 171–173, 175, 179, ch. 9

• slang 10, 11, 130, 132, 133, 137, 139, 141, 143–145, 159, 207, 218

• social class and classification 3, 8, 32, 34, 39, 54, 131, 132

• social media167

• socio-economy see economy

• sociocultural function 2, 3

• socio-cultural setting see culture setting

• socio-onomastic methodology 8, 9

• socio-onomastics: definition ch. 1, 46, 57, 65, 130, 184, 200, 204
  • historical socio-onomastics ch. 2

• sociopragmatic see pragmatic

• speech community see community

• spelling see orthography

• spontaneous use of names see name usage

• standardization 4, 28, 106, 113–115, 119, 120, 134

• statistical analysis 9, 13, 47, 57, 70, 71, 83, 85, 88, 90, 174, 175

• street names 14, 156, 158–159, 184, 191

• surnames, surname studies 3, 4, 59, 70, 82–85, 89, 196 ; see also family names

• symbol and symbolic function 184, 186, 187, 197

• toponomastics, toponyms and toponymy 3, 7, 13–15, ch. 2, ch. 5, ch. 6, ch. 7, 186, ch. 10
  • toponymic competence 8, 9
  • toponymic silence39 see also place names

• tourism 10, 41, 94, 98, 106

• trade register see laws

• trademarks 113, 170

• translation of names 13–15, 26, 38, 40, ch. 5, 157, 161, 162, 215 ; see also phonological translation

• transparency of names 4, 11, 24, 40, 108, 192, 194, 196

• typography103

• typology of names 2, 5, 7, 16

• UNGEGN [United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names] 4, 95, 96, 101, 111, 112, 122

• unofficial names see official vs. unofficial

• urban names 11, 12, 16, ch. 5, ch. 6, ch. 7, ch. 9, ch. 10

• variation and variability in name usage 2, 6–11, 25, 31, 46, 56, 57, 69, 94, 101, ch. 6, 189, 191, 197, 198, 204

• written form of names 39, 89, 101, 102, 106, 107, 112, 114, 120, 172

• written sources 29, 31–33, 35, 38–40, 46, 57, 132, 207

• youth language 15, 132, ch. 10