Search Results - "personal names"

Names are important in the Yorùbá culture. It is like a lens that clearly reflects the people’s social background and their cultural ideologies. Names are means by which a person is identified. It is considered among Yorùbá to be of life longer, even than the bearer of the names, hence the need...

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This article discusses personal names as a crucial linguistic resource for the construction of gender-related identities. It identifies and discusses trends in research on naming and gender, aiming to highlight key publications, point out changes over time, and suggest fruitful areas for further re...

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This study examines the attitudes of a group of native Spaniards towards aspects concerning the necessity of adapting foreign names to the official languages of the country and towards the legal regulations governing name assignment and modification. The research adopts theoretical principles from...

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This paper discusses diacritics in immigrant personal names in Sweden. A qualitative study, based on interviews with Swedes bearing Turkish, Kurdish, Croatian or Vietnamese names, investigates their level of knowledge and daily use of diacritics. It turns out that diacritics are barely in use. In s...

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The Nigeria–Biafra war (1967–1970) has been regarded as the first major civil war in post-colonial Africa, with an attendant and colossal loss of lives, property, and infrastructure. There are many representations of memories of the war in fiction, non-fiction, symbols, memoires, and post-war relics...

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This article examines the Lithuanianness of the names of Lithuanian citizens born in Norway between 1991 and 2020. To do this, a scale was created to measure Lithuanianness that takes into account grammatical structure, origin, derivation, and orthography. From a grammatical point of view, the stud...

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In German dialects and in rural communities, special personal names are used, in which the surname precedes the given name: der Müller Peter, Fischers Emma. This article presents the results of a research project addressing the grammatical and pragmatic variation of these unofficial names. A mixed...

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This study aims to examine igiHa personal names with special reference to Goddard’s (2006) ethnopragmatic framework. While the question of personal names in Bantu languages is much explored by previous studies, much attention is paid to linguistic orientations. In such a way, this study discusses br...

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The article is devoted to the axiological direction, which is practically not in demand in onomasiological studies, despite the attention to it of various humanities. Non-calendar personal names recorded in written sources relating to Karelian Pomerania and adjacent territories, which occasionally b...

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This article explores the anthroponymy of descendants of Italian settlers in Crimea and its connection to the cultural and ethnic identity of Italians, which has evolved over the 20th and 21st centuries. The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the peculiarities of anthro...

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Comprehensive analysis of the widespread in Russian folk dialects idiom tyukha da matyukha and its various variants ( tyukha, pantyukha da kolupay s bratom ; tyukha-matyukha ; tyukha-pantyukha , etc.) is proposed. The author reveals models of phrase-forming, describes the semantics of the idiom and...

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The relevance of the study is determined by the rare appeal of onomatologists to studying two-stems anthroponomical units, which in turn is due to their low quantitative representation in the texts of the mass census and act materials of the epochs before national period. The written sources of a pe...

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