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(2025-05-13)This chapter explores inequalities in access to civic learning opportunities in high school. Civic education is conceived of in a broad sense and may include school councils, an open classroom environment, debating clubs, ...
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(2023-12-18)Taking over the editorial office of Onoma in January 2019 was a great challenge, not only due to the tradition and brand behind the name, but also due to certain deficiencies which had accumulated over the years and led ...
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(2023-01-18)The recently founded Nordic network New Trends in Nordic Socio-Onomastics was started as a workshop program in 2018 and 2019, funded by The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences. ...
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(2023-12-18)The article focuses on analyzing motivation patterns for naming in the travel industry in Germany, Poland, and Ukraine. The research is based on a cognitive approach to proper name semantics, namely on the frame theory. ...
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(2023-12-18)Chinese food is a cultural export product consumed almost all over the world. The reason for this is, among other things, the fact that Chinese restaurants are among the leading businesses run by the Chinese abroad. Generally ...
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(2023-12-18)The goal of this paper is to identify and describe the synchronic models found in women’s perfumes. Ninety names of women’s perfumes and perfumed waters excerpted from the website of the Notino cosmetic shop were analysed. ...
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(2023-12-18)The present study focuses on the linguistic and functional parameters of logonyms (business and trade names), that is, the chrematonym characterized by expressive frequency and pragmatics. The typology and classification ...
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(2023-12-18)From the birth of railways in Britain in the early nineteenth century, it rapidly became usual (but not obligatory) for the classes of locomotive used on passenger trains to bear names. Before 1846 diverse practices were ...
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(2023-12-18)Dongbaism and Dabaism are indigenous religions of the Moso people, who live on the cultural border between Han and Tibetan traditions in Southwest China. Besides their original cultural foundations, it is possible to notice ...
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(2023-12-18)This paper is devoted to the analysis the of personal names contained in Die Umschreibungen des Begriffes „Hunger“ im Italienischen: stilistisch-onomasiologische Studie auf Grund von unveröffentlichtem Zensurmaterial. ...
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(2023-12-18)The system of names given to one of the main characters in the short story “Boys” (1887) by Chekhov was analyzed. The research of this system of nominations showed the influence of nominative paradigm on the formation ...
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The Function of Proper Nouns in Quantitative Analysis of Dramas: A Case Study of Karel Čapek’s Plays(2023-12-18)This paper falls in the field of literary onomastics, and the focus of the study is mainly methodological. However, I will present the first results of a quantitative analysis of Čapek’s plays, especially engaging with ...
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(2023-12-18)This study explores animal names in Femi Osofisan’s “Kolera Kolej” (2001), entrenched in the characters’ animalistic tendencies and nonconformity to Yoruba ethics, values and norms. Despite studies on Osofisan’s theatre ...
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(2023-12-18)This article deals with video game toponyms as a representation of a toponymic concept – a unit of onomastic knowledge concerning spatial and geographical characteristics of a location. The importance of toponyms in video ...
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(2023-12-18)The aim of the paper is to present the criminal pseudonyms found in Sergiusz Piasecki’s trilogy, that is, in the novels “Jabłuszko” (‘Little Apple’), “Spojrzę ja w okno” (‘I Will Look in the Window’) and “Nikt nie da nam ...
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(2023-12-18)Referring to etymological analysis, the author of this article presents a new hypothesis concerning the origin of the Old Prussian (OPr.) mythological name Patollo ‘a deity of the dead’ found in “Prussian Chronicle” ...
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(2023-12-18)The expansion of studies in literary onomastics and the accumulation of a considerable number of articles and monographs in the field proved the need to generalize the theoretical material. It also led to the extension and ...
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(2023-12-18)This article deals with the analysis of the meaning and the origin of the proper name Dracula, belonging to the well-known vampire created by Bram Stoker, from an etymological point of view. Indeed, Dracula is not a ...
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(2023-12-18)The Declaration of Arbroath: Historical, cultural and onomastic aspects and educational perspectives Abstract The so-called “Declaration of Arbroath”, whose 700th anniversary was celebrated in 2020, represents an extraordinary ...
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(2023-12-18)The focus of this study is the presence of a complex onomaturgical technique in Leonid Andreyev’s novel “Diary of Satan”. In this work, Andreyev’s favorite themes are encapsulated: a pure man’s sadness in the face of the ...
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