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(2023-12-18)1993 saw the foundation, under the aegis of the University of Pisa, of the International Association, Onomastica e Letteratura (O&L): this was followed in 1995 by the first of further 25 annual symposia, held in Pisa one ...
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(2023-12-18)Starting from a literary text, we will work both in semantics (textual and referential), philosophy (of language) and cognitive sciences (for memory issues, among others). We will be interested in a case of designation ...
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(2023-12-18)The aim of this paper is to propose a semiotic definition of a proper name with the classic Saussurean bilateral linguistic sign as the genus proximum and the individual concept (and not a general or categorical one) ...
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(2023-12-18)The article discusses a method for evaluating new onomastic terms, which includes two stages: the pre-textual stage and the textual one. The problem of textual criterion for assessing the need for new terms in onomastics ...
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(2023-12-18)The paper is based on the enquiries addressed to the Language Consulting Centre of the Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, which have been published (together with the relevant answers) in an online ...
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(2023-12-18)The nature of properhood is one of the fundamental questions in onomastics. Nouns are traditionally categorised as either proper names or common nouns, but a word can change from one category to another. In recent times, ...
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(2023-12-18)Artifact names are traditionally viewed as a sub-category of culture names, which include the names of features created by humans. The nature and categorization of artifacts in the modern world is increasingly difficult ...
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(2023-12-18)When translating, there are numerous factors to take into consideration in the process of choosing the equivalents of proper names in the target language. Interpreting translation as a special form of interlingual and ...
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(2023-12-18)Broadcast speakers frequently have to pronounce names of foreign origin in their everyday work. Mostly these are anthroponyms of celebrities or toponyms in international news. Often, they have to pronounce names from many ...
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(2023-12-18)Much work in onomastics tends to be language- or ethnicity-related and subdisciplinarian. In the Western tradition, the creation of a general onomastics, an overarching theory of names and naming, has largely been the ...
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(2023-12-18)In the modern theory of Terminology, it is claimed that terminology work is descriptive in approach, exploring actual term use in specialized discourse. Terminological units are examined from cognitive, linguistic and ...
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(2023-12-18)Volume 3 is the most diverse thematically, containing articles on the general and applied aspects of onomastics, on onymy in literature and other cultural texts, as well as on chrematonyms. There are also two reports, which ...
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(2023-12-12)It has been argued that in modern Bulgarian society, two specific groups of names are considered prestigious – those borrowed from a foreign language and a small number of names recognized as old, historical names, believed ...
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(2023-12-12)The paper explores the ways the gender of the nominee and the nominator impacts contemporary nicknaming practices. The analysis is based on data collected from 2014 to 2021 from school, college and university students based ...
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(2023-12-12)The study presents a survey, carried out in 2017, concerning the motivations and tendencies of the choice of married names in Hungary. The informants were women between the age of twenty and forty who were married after ...
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(2023-12-12)The paper demonstrates the usability of historical given name corpora in the research of saints’ cults, with special emphasis on the methodological consequences of gender differences. The small number of historical female ...
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(2023-12-12)Foreign names frequently occur in public language use. The technical possibilities of information transmission and globalization both contribute to their rapid spread. The same events are reported on simultaneously in ...
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(2023-12-12)Due to the diversity of bases and meanings, Lithuanian names of the 20th and 21st centuries derived from personal features form a separate group of onyms. Their bases are adjectives with the following meanings: Dimension ...
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(2023-12-12)Due to historical circumstances, the German language has had a large impact on Latvian surnames. Surnames of German origin constitute the second largest group of Latvian surnames – after those of Latvian origin. Unfortunately, ...
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(2023-12-12)African personal names, particularly those in Sub-Sahara, are generally motivated by external forces like the circumstances surrounding the family at the time of the pregnancy or the birth of the child. Consequently, these ...
