Names and Naming : : People, Places, Perceptions and Power /

Names and Naming : : People, Places, Perceptions and Power / / ed. by Guy Puzey, Laura Kostanski.

This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of onomastic enquiry. Naming practices are viewed here through a critical lens, demonstrating a high level of political and social engagement in relation to how we name people and places. The contributors to this...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Ainiala, Terhi,
Aleksiejuk, Katarzyna,
Berezkina, Maimu,
Bramwell, Ellen S.,
Clark, Ian D.,
Győrffy, Erzsébet,
Helander, Kaisa Rautio,
Kostanski, Laura,
Mühlhäusler, Peter,
Nash, Joshua,
Nyström, Staffan,
Pedersen, Aud-Kirsti,
Puzey, Guy,
Scott, Maggie,
Walkowiak, Justyna B.,
Walsh, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Kostanski, Laura,
Puzey, Guy,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Multilingual Matters
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Trends in Onomastics: An Introduction
  • Part 1: The Varied Identities of People and Places
  • 1. Internet Personal Naming Practices and Trends in Scholarly Approaches
  • 2. Visitor Experiences of Aboriginal Place Names in Colonial Victoria, Australia, 1834-1900
  • 3. Introduced Personal Names for Australian Aborigines: Adaptations to an Exotic Anthroponymy
  • 4. Personal Naming and Community Practices in the Western Isles of Scotland: Putting Names in the 'Gaelic Sense'
  • 5. Signs of/on Power, Power on/of Signs: Language-Based Tourism, Linguistic Landscapes and Onomastics on Norfolk Island
  • Part 2: Attitudes and Attachment
  • 6. The Controversy of Restoring Indigenous Names: Lessons Learnt and Strategies for Success
  • 7. Attitudes to Street Names in Helsinki
  • 8. Linguistic Landscape and Inhabitants' Attitudes to Place Names in Multicultural Oslo
  • 9. Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon
  • 10. Slang Toponyms in Hungary: A Survey of Attitudes Among Language Users
  • Part 3: Power, Resistance and Control
  • 11. Renaming as Counter-Hegemony: The Cases of Noreg and Padania
  • 12. Naming Parks, Footpaths and Small Bridges in a Multicultural Suburban Area
  • 13. Personal Names in Language Policy and Planning: Who Plans What Names, for Whom and How?
  • 14. Is the Official Use of Names in Norway Determined by the Place- Names Act or by Attitudes?
  • 15. The Power of Administration in the Official Recognition of Indigenous Place Names in the Nordic Countries
  • Index

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