Svenja Völkel

List of John Benjamins publications for which Svenja Völkel plays a role.

Journal

Titles

Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa

Edited by Nico Nassenstein, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 (2023) vi, 161 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Austronesian languages | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

Völkel, Svenja 2023 Named entities, naming practices, and their meanings – linguistic types and cultural contextsNaming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa, Nassenstein, Nico, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel (eds.), pp. 151–174 | Article
Although names exist in all languages of the world, their formal and functional manifestations show great diversity. Due to their embeddedness in socio-cultural and historical contexts, an anthropological-linguistic approach that brings together linguistic and cultural facts is required to… read more
Völkel, Svenja 2023 The brand names of craft gins in South Africa: An onomastic analysisNaming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa, Nassenstein, Nico, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel (eds.), pp. 224–239 | Article
Gin has become a very popular alcoholic drink, and is often used with various other mixers, often including fruit. The definition (Collins Paperback English Dictionary) reads as follows: “an alcoholic drink distilled from malted grain and flavoured juniper berries” (1994: 351). One of the most… read more
Völkel, Svenja, Sambulo Ndlovu and Nico Nassenstein 2023 Naming and labelling contexts of cultural importance in Africa: An introductionNaming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa, Nassenstein, Nico, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel (eds.), pp. 145–150 | Introduction
Völkel, Svenja 2021 Tongan honorifics and their underlying concepts of mana and tapu: A verbal taboo in its emic senseSex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language, Keller, Melanie, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber (eds.), pp. 25–56 | Article
The Tongan language has honorific registers, called a ‘language of respect’ (Churchward 1953). These are two limited sets of lexemes used to refer to people of chiefly and kingly rank and thus honour the societal stratification. Anthropological-linguistic research reveals that these honorifics… read more
Völkel, Svenja 2017 Word classes and the scope of lexical flexibility in TonganLexical flexibility in Oceanic languages, Lier, Eva van (ed.), pp. 445–495 | Article
Tongan is an Oceanic language belonging to the Polynesian subgroup. Based on previous work (Churchward 1953, Tchekhoff 1981, Broschart 1997), Tongan has been classified as a 'flexible' language by various typological approaches on word classes (Hengeveld 1992, Rijkhoff 1998, Croft 2001). This… read more