Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.59589/noso.22022.14677
Sofia Kotilainen
Onomastic literacy (the skills needed to interpret the cultural and social phenomena and meanings related to name-giving) are part of a person’s cultural capital. I use this concept, which I have developed, to study personal names in family networks and in royal families in particular. This research combines the approaches and methodologies of collective biography, microhistory and the history of mentalities. The concept of onomastic literacy helps us to contextualize the lives of the research objects more closely as part of the cultures and local communities of their times, thereby revealing the deep-rooted motives behind name choices and the slow change in mentalities affecting naming.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.12021.14722
Simone Busley, Damaris Nübling
In German, gender is a strongly grammaticalized category and has the function of indicating grammatical agreement between syntactic units. Usually, each noun is assigned one of three grammatical genders. In standard German, nouns denoting women are typically feminine. However, Luxembourgish and some German dialects show a peculiarity: here, the gender of female first names and other parts of speech (e.g. pronouns) referring to women can be both feminine and neuter, depending on the nature of the interpersonal relationship between the speaker and the female referred to. In these varieties, gender assignment is governed by sociopragmatic factors. Sociopragmatic gender assignment is a result of de-grammaticalization, which is reflected in both syntagmatic and paradigmatic gender variability. The study shows that there is considerable diatopic variation in the use and function of gender in references to women. In some dialects, the neuter has become the default gender of female first names; this is a case of re-grammaticalization.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.12021.14728
Adrian Pablé
This paper offers a number of semiological reflections on proper names. It contrasts the Saussurean approach to names with the related socio-onomastic (i.e. Labovian) approach and draws conclusions about their theoretical coherence and empirical viability. It further argues that an ‘informationist’ approach to names, which introduces a conception of the sign compatible with the cognitive sciences, does not advance our understanding of either semiology or onomastics, being fixated on a questionable analogy of the human mind/brain to the computer. Instead, the paper promotes an alternative approach to names based on an integrational semiology as developed by the linguist Roy Harris. The second part of the article revisits a study on colonial New England titles of civility and suggests that sociohistorical onomastics, like socio-onomastics, is founded on a dubious metaphysical assumption concerning the ontology of ‘language’.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.12021.14725
Elwys De Stefani
This article offers a literature review of studies on disease names carried out by dialectologists and onomasticians. The analytical part focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the names used for the pathogen (SARS-CoV-2) and the related disease (COVID-19). It homes in on a variety of names used in English for the virus (e.g. Novel Coronavirus, Wuhan virus, 2019-nCoV) and for the disease (e.g. China flu, Chinese flu). It shows that toponymic names reflect a common pattern of naming pathogens and diseases. By analysing two excerpts in which Donald J. Trump uses such names, the article shows how these can be used in divisive and derogatory ways, for political purposes.
本文综述了辩证法和语音学家对疾病名称的研究。分析部分以COVID-19大流行为重点，讨论了病原体(SARS-CoV-2)和相关疾病(COVID-19)的名称。它集中介绍了这种病毒(例如Novel Coronavirus, Wuhan virus, 2019-nCoV)和这种疾病(例如China flu, Chinese flu)的各种英文名称。这表明地名反映了一种命名病原体和疾病的共同模式。通过分析唐纳德·j·特朗普(Donald J. Trump)使用这些名字的两段摘录，这篇文章展示了这些名字是如何出于政治目的，以分裂和贬损的方式被使用的。
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Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.12021.14734
R. Rose-Redwood
This concluding commentary critically and constructively engages with the articles in this first multidisciplinary issue of the Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics. It does so in the spirit of affirmative critique, with the aim of advancing the ongoing dialogue on the social and political life of names and naming. The commentary concludes by arguing that the multidisciplinary field of socio-onomastics is best viewed as a contact zone, or space of convergence, for scholarship that examines the diverse ways in which names and naming shape, and are shaped by, worlds-in-the-making.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.12021.14731
Guy Puzey, Jani Vuolteenaho, Matthias Wolny
Proposing and elaborating upon the concept of onomastic capital as a multidisciplinary lens for socio-onomastic research, this article considers some of the historical underpinnings that contribute to onomastic capital, before focusing specifically on the recent dramatic growth in the phenomenon of selling naming rights to (semi-)public spaces. This marketization of names has been especially visible in sports and entertainment venues. To examine emerging naming patterns and practices resulting from such name sponsorship activity, the article explores a database of onomastic material from a variety of European contexts: England and Wales, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway and Scotland.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.59589/noso.12021.14713
Terhi Ainiala, P. Olsson
By analysing Finnish data drawn from 106 written responses to a questionnaire, we have studied the ways people name their places of power and the ways affective meanings are present in their descriptions. Places of power renew, calm, invigorate and help in distress. They allow the respondents to be alone and listen to their own thoughts, or they make them feel at one with nature. Four main strategies are used to identify these places of power: official place names, relational place descriptions, unofficial place names and classifying expressions. In the process of placemaking, three kinds of agency stand out: the agency of the materiality of the place, that of emotions and affective practices, and that of the person experiencing the place. Identifying the place by naming it is part of this process.
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