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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 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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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 article delves into the critical issue of integrating pronoun awareness in Swedish educational settings to cultivate more inclusive environments. Through a mixture of surveys and interviews, the research examines teachers’ experiences and attitudes towards pupils who identify with new pronouns,...

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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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