Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2020.1751457
Wang Feng, Zhang Shuyue, Chen Cheng
This study examines 315 nicknames of all the 211 FIFA national football teams (NFTs) as of January 2020. A preliminary analysis of these nicknames shows that they have statistically significant differences, suggesting subtle intercultural variation worthy of further investigation. It is hoped that this initial foray into these nicknames will inspire in-depth academic research at the continental and intercontinental levels.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2020.1735812
Priscilla A. Ord
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2020.1735810
I. M. Nick
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Pub Date : 2020-03-24DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2020.1731242
Jong-mi Kim
This research examines personal and business names and their translations among typologically contrastive languages: English, Korean, and Chinese. A linguistic framework is proposed that predicts and tests whether and how ideal translations will be based on sound or meaning, as defined by the phonetic or semantic features of the given orthography. Two separate surveys (online in the US and onsite in Korea) were taken about preferred translations of names from and to the three languages. The linguistic prediction was borne out by the survey results: sound translation is preferred from and to English, meaning translation from and to Chinese, and preference is mixed from and to Korean. An additional finding was that translation preference was sound-based for personal names but meaning-based for business names. The full list of 118 original names and 302 translation choices in the three languages investigated in this study is provided in the appendix.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-11DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2020.1731240
Heiko Motschenbacher
Corpus linguistics is, to date, still an underexplored methodology in onomastics. This article seeks to advance the field through a theoretical discussion of onomastic issues from a corpus linguistic point of view. It presents an overview of the linguistic status, meaning and grammar of proper names in order to highlight aspects that lend themselves to corpus linguistic inquiry. Earlier onomastic research is adduced, to highlight how corpus linguistic methods have substantially improved our understanding of names in language use. While previous onomastic work has often concentrated on the description of names in their own right, without necessarily taking the usage context into account, it is argued that the investigation of the semantics and the grammar of names needs to be complemented by work that draws on usage-based, corpus linguistic evidence. A stronger integration of four types of corpus linguistic analysis (frequency analysis, concordance analysis, collocation analysis, keyword analysis) is suggested for future research.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2020.1731241
Heiko Motschenbacher
This study investigates the grammatical behavior of English country names based on corpus linguistic evidence. An overview of the basic patterns of definite article use with country names as commonly described in English reference grammars and of the morphological structures of English country names is presented. Against this backdrop, the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is used to explore which (groups of) country names occur more or less frequently with a definite article. The data analysis reveals that virtually all of the English country names examined are, to some extent, used in the syntactic position following a definite article. It is shown that certain grammatical constructions call for the use of a definite article in connection with country names. However, the morphology of the country names also has a strong influence on how often they are used with a definite article. Furthermore, it is argued that the minority of English country names that do not fit this morphological pattern may differ because they derive from other place name types that generally take a definite article.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2020.1731243
J. Tent
Toponymic literature generally recognizes three main structures in English: those with a specific + generic element (e.g. Tweed River, Mount White); those that consist of a specific element alone (e.g. Perth, Washington); and less commonly, those with a generic element preceded by the definite article (e.g. The Bend, The Bluff). There are of course combinations and variations on these three (e.g. The Maiden Mountain, Valley of the Giants). Very rarely has the existence of toponyms comprising solely a generic term (e.g. Pinnacle, Sugarloaf) been mentioned or discussed. This survey investigates the occurrence and use of such toponyms in four English-speaking regions.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2018.1452937
Xingzi Xu
This paper derives largely from my own experience during two international sojourns as a case study to tease out the salient elements of the dynamic processes involved in the exchange of my Chinese name Xing for an arbitrary English counterpart Helen, and then followed by reverting to Xing again. Contrary to previous studies that construe the issues of international students reconstructing their ethnic names into English ones as an innocuous expression of good will and cultural integration, this study argues that the neglected impact that these transitions of nomenclature have on the patronization of one’s ethnic identity should be addressed as a matter of significant importance. The methodological approach taken here will involve adopting a reflective philosophical self-narration of the ramifications on my ethnic identity associated with the name change. This analysis will be extrapolated and further developed within Cross’s five-stage model, arguing that the name change process is indicative of a developing awareness of one’s ethnic identity.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2019.1643136
Isaac Nick
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2020.1735813
Lisa Berglund
A slenderly written, lavishly illustrated volume, Mapping Shakespeare’s World states its goals directly: “This book sets out to survey the settings of the Shakespeare plays, to ask how familiar the...
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