Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.32023.14413
M. Nevala, J. Tyrkkö
This article studies the sense development, semantic shifts and use of words referring to people with mental illness in public discourse in the latter half of the 20th century. The focus is on the process of labelling or naming, which often reflects a more prevalent, societal attitude either in favor or against particular group memberships. The results show that while the old terms underwent a semantic change around the Second World War, their use continued in the latter half of the 20th century. Terms such as lunatic and idiot were used as intensifiers, for comedic purposes, and as distancing devices in intergroup relations and were no longer referential to medically diagnosed mental health conditions.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.32023.14410
Hanna Limatius
This article investigates the practices of naming and describing bodies in plus-size women’s fashion blogs. Building on Jeffries’ (2007) work on the construction of bodies and bodily processes in women’s magazines, I explore how bloggers use language to construct their identities through references to bodily characteristics. I investigate terms the bloggers use to describe the plus-size body, as well as the connotative features of these terms. In addition, I analyse the use of three terms that were used to describe bodies that are not plus-size: thin, slim, and skinny. The results demonstrate that, while the bloggers build counter-discourse to the mainstream media discourses that construct fatness as a negative characteristic, they also maintain particular hegemonic discourses on beauty, sexuality and gender.
{"title":"'The super-fats, the middlies and the barely-fats'","authors":"Hanna Limatius","doi":"10.59589/noso.32023.14410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59589/noso.32023.14410","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the practices of naming and describing bodies in plus-size women’s fashion blogs. Building on Jeffries’ (2007) work on the construction of bodies and bodily processes in women’s magazines, I explore how bloggers use language to construct their identities through references to bodily characteristics. I investigate terms the bloggers use to describe the plus-size body, as well as the connotative features of these terms. In addition, I analyse the use of three terms that were used to describe bodies that are not plus-size: thin, slim, and skinny. The results demonstrate that, while the bloggers build counter-discourse to the mainstream media discourses that construct fatness as a negative characteristic, they also maintain particular hegemonic discourses on beauty, sexuality and gender.","PeriodicalId":117170,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130325010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.32023.14404
Antii Kanner, J. Raunamaa
This article examines the influence public figures had on the name-giving in Finland from 1900 to 1939 via their presence in newspapers. The study is based on digital materials and the results were obtained using statistical research methods. The main finding of the study is that generally, the prevalence of notable peoples’ names does not reflect the person in the way people choose first names for their children. On the other hand, more in-depth analyses reveal consistent interaction: short-term peaks in prominence of public figures in the newspaper data coincide with peaks in the popularity of their first names 50% more often than could be expected by random. Also, high-correlation outliers reveal personalities with a definite impact on first given name trends, interpretable as rule-confirming exceptions of the general pattern of very modest correlations.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.32023.14416
Maria Sarhemaa
In the article, three appellativized Finnish personal names are analysed in their use as a derogatory part of communication. In support of the argumentation, two kinds of data are used: corpus data from the internet forum Suomi24 (‘Finland24’) and internet questionnaire data. The methods of qualitative corpus and questionnaire research are adapted, and the approach is loosely cognitive. It is evident that the three expressions are used pejoratively and to express negative emotions. Thus, their usage makes the communication impolite or emphasizes impoliteness. By showing the meanings and usages of the three expressions, it is argued that appellativized proper names have a specific, complex semantic profile.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.32023.14401
Terhi Ainiala, Salla Jokela, Jenny Tarvainen, Jarmo Jantunen
The article focuses on digital discourses related to Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa, the three biggest municipalities in Finland’s capital region. The data consist of texts from the discussion forum of Suomi24 that was analysed to find out how forum users produce socio-spatial distinctions by categorizing some groups as ‘others’ thus differentiating in-groups and out-groups. The analysis used methods of comprised corpus assisted discourse studies (CADS), including collocation analysis. The results show that discourses related both to native and non-native Helsinkians and to those living in the capital region in contrast to those living elsewhere in Finland are common and the juxtapositions between various groups are repeatedly constructed.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.59589/noso.22022.14671
D. Duncan
New residential and commercial developments provide opportunities for ideological and semiotic work to be performed in the course of naming the development itself and streets, buildings etc. within it. This paper examines the names given within one such development in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. I offer a framework to examine the semiotic work names such as these do, in which I consider place names to evoke chronotopes in order to construct a place as authentic. Relying on this constructed authenticity in selling space and the use of space within the development means that place names and the chronotopes evoked by them carry symbolic onomastic capital and are effectively commodified.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.59589/noso.22022.14674
L. Gustafsson
With a particular focus on differences within social groups, this article describes the multiple forename system as it emerged between 1720 and 1890 in the area of Skellefteå in the north-east of Sweden. Female and male forenames are compared, as is the introduction of the multiple forename system in different social groups in the study data. Theoretical starting points are taken from the discipline of cultural sociology, especially the work of Simmel (1957) and Bourdieu (1984; 1989; 1997). The results indicate that this naming pattern was introduced in the naming of girls prior to the naming of boys. Analysis of the social aspects of the process takes its starting point in fields like ‘names and social identity’, ‘status and (group) solidarity’, and ‘the importance of taste’. The data studied are divided into six social groups based on the father’s social rank at the time of the child’s birth, one group comprising unmarried mothers and one ‘miscellaneous’ group. The results illustrate that the practice of giving children at least two forenames was introduced by the upper middle class (upper bourgeoisie), who then either returned to giving one forename or increased the number of forenames to three for each child. (...)
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.59589/noso.22022.14665
Terhi Ainiala, Paula Sjöblom, Ulla Hakala
Most municipalities in Finland have a slogan. At best, the slogan stems from the municipality’s strategy and thereby conveys the mission of the municipality and strengthens both its image and its memorability. In our interdisciplinary project, we are analysing municipal slogans from both a linguistic and a marketing point of view, exploring their ability to promote the municipality’s reputation and visibility. Our analysis here is limited to slogans that include the name of the municipality; in these cases, the different linguistic ways in which the name of the municipality can function as a motivation are explored. The focus is on the syntactic position of the name and its discursive function, as well as on alliteration with the name in the slogans. Based on this linguistic analysis, the motivation for such slogans in municipalities’ marketing discourse is considered.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.59589/noso.22022.14683
Helle Lykke Nielsen, Maria Löfdahl, Tove Rosendahl, Johan Järlehed, Tommaso M. Milani
This article examines how names and language choices are used to position mosques vis-à-vis other mosques and in relation to the majority population. Using Anthias’ positioning theory, Giraut and Houssay-Holzschuch’s theoretical framework for naming and naming processes, and the concept of spatial scaling, we analyze the names and language choices of three mosques in Gothenburg: Islamic Sunni Centre, also known as Bellevue Mosque, Gothenburg Mosque and Angered Mosque. The analysis shows that the mosques use a wide range of naming technologies, reflecting different ways of positioning themselves in Gothenburg’s mosque landscape. In this positioning, references from the country of origin, the choice of religious orientation and the use of Arabic as a religious language become tools both for the mosque and for the individuals who visit it.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.59589/noso.22022.14701
Lennart Ryman
In the tax records of Stockholm from 1502 and 1503, a personal name appears which is interpreted in the dictionary of medieval personal names of Sweden (SMP) as a man’s name Hartvik or Hartika, written Gambla Artich ‘Old Hartvik’. The author finds this explanation unlikely and proposes that Gambla Artich is an attestation of a byname ‘old örtug’, where ‘örtug’ is a coin denomination. Furthermore, it is proposed that the name bearer is probably a woman. Bynames are not generally used to refer to women in Swedish medieval sources, and it is argued that the great majority of the relatively few known cases should be explained as a derogatory usage, typically denoting marginalized women.
在1502年和1503年斯德哥尔摩的税务记录中，出现了一个个人名字，在瑞典中世纪人名词典(SMP)中被解释为一个男人的名字Hartvik或Hartika，写为Gambla Artich ' Old Hartvik '。作者认为这种解释不太可能，并提出Gambla Artich是一个别名“old örtug”的证明，其中“örtug”是一种硬币面额。此外，有人提出，冠名者可能是一名女性。在瑞典中世纪的文献中，绰号通常不被用来指代女性，有人认为，在相对较少的已知案例中，绝大多数都应该被解释为一种贬义用法，通常指被边缘化的女性。
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