Socio-onomastics

Socio-onomastics
Author: Terhi Ainiala
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027265690

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trends within socio-onomastics, interactional onomastics, contact onomastics, folk onomastics, and linguistic landscape studies. The volume is an introduction to these fields – with the introductory chapter giving an overview of, and an update on, recent onomastic study – and in addition offers detailed in-depth analyses of place names, person names, street names and commercial names from different perspectives: historically, as well as from the point of view of the impact of globalization and glocalization. All the chapters focus on the use and function of names and naming, on changes in name usage, and on the reasons for, processes in, and results of names in contact.

Petrosinella

Petrosinella
Author:
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Company
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780723261964

In this version of Rapunzel, the heroine breaks the enchantment put on her by the ogress who keeps her prisoner with the aid of three acorns.

Rumpelstiltskin / Rumpelstilzchen (Bilingual Edition

Rumpelstiltskin / Rumpelstilzchen (Bilingual Edition
Author: Brüder Grimm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2017-04-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781521029466

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "Rumpelstiltskin" (also spelled as "Rumplestiltskin") is the antagonist of a fairy tale that originated in North Highlands (where he is known as "Rumpelstilzchen"). The tale was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of "Children's and Household Tales". It was subsequently revised in later editions. "Rumpelstilzchen" ist ein Märchen (ATU 500). Es steht in den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm ab der 1. Auflage von 1812 an Stelle 55 (KHM 55).

First Name Reverse Dictionary

First Name Reverse Dictionary
Author: Yvonne Navarro
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-01-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476609969

This innovative dictionary allows the user to find given names which relate to a specific meaning. Arranged alphabetically by definition, the names are followed by the language of origin, variations (derivatives, diminutives, and nicknames) of the name itself, and the name as interpreted in different languages. Separate sections are included for male and female names. Using the dictionary you could discover that there are over 160 names listed for "flower," from Anthea (Greek) to Zahara (African).

The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming

The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming
Author: Carole Hough
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019163042X

In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few decades. The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming strategies adopted for them.

Aram and Zangi-Zrangi, Armenian Tale, Bilingual Armenian/English

Aram and Zangi-Zrangi, Armenian Tale, Bilingual Armenian/English
Author: Eliza Garibian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2018-05-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719112413

"Aram and Zangi-Zrangi" is our adaptation of the "Zangi-Zrangi" fairy tale by the famous Armenian writer Ghazaros Aghayan. The tale has a fascinating plot that will keep reader engaged for a long period of time while improving proficiency in the language and introducing to Armenian literature.

Words in the Mind

Words in the Mind
Author: Jean Aitchison
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2003-01-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780631232445

Words in the Mind deals with words, and how humans learn them, remember them, understand them, and find the ones they want. It discusses the structure and content of the human word-store or ‘mental lexicon, with particular reference to the spoken language of native English speakers. Discusses the structure and content of the human word-store, or 'mental lexicon'. Features a highly informative and accessible account of a central area of research. Incorporates new research on the mental lexicon. Written by a prominent researcher of the mental lexicon, language change, and the language of the media.

Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space

Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space
Author: Oliviu Felecan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2013-08-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443852171

Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space aims at analysing names and name-giving from an intercultural perspective, within the context of contemporary public space. As was the case of Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), the geographical areas investigated in the studies included in this volume are very diverse, referring not only to European cultural space, but also to American, Asian, African and Australian contexts. Being a collective work, the book brings together 49 specialists from 18 countries; namely Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA. Thematically, the volume is organised so that it may cover all the dimensions of public space, as far as onomastics is concerned. The specific areas studied are: the theory of names; names of public places (linguistic landscapes); names of public, economic, cultural, religious and sports institutions (names of business establishments, religious institutions – places of worship – and cultural associations, as well as names in journals and magazines); names of objects/entities resulting from various processes in public space (names of foods, drinks and food brands, code names of collaborators in secret service organisations, names in literature, nicknames/bynames/pseudonyms in the world of politics, high life, art and sport, names in virtual space, and zoonyms); and miscellanea. The originality and topicality of the subject lie in the multidisciplinary viewpoint adopted in the research, in which onomastics merges with adjacent linguistic disciplines, such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and pragmatics, as well as other sciences, such as history, literature, anthropology, politics, economy and religion.

Expression and Meaning

Expression and Meaning
Author: John R. Searle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1979
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521313933

A direct successor to Searle's Speech Acts (C.U.P. 1969), Expression and Meaning refines earlier analyses and extends speech-act theory to new areas including indirect and figurative discourse, metaphor and fiction.

Mapping English Metaphor Through Time

Mapping English Metaphor Through Time
Author: Wendy Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198744579

This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English, based on evidence from The Historical Thesaurus of English. It offers case studies of a number of semantic domains and provides a significant step forward in the data-driven understanding of metaphor.