Publications
Publication details [#26345]
Rymes, Betsy. 1996. Naming as social practice: The case of Little Creeper from Diamond Street. Language in Society 25 (2) : 237–260. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article proposes to develop a more comprehensive theory of (nick)naming as social practice, attached to individual experience, social context, and cultural history, via the example of the experience of a gang member in a Los Angeles barrio. It also analyzes how names acquire new meanings in different social contexts.