Names and Naming : People, Places, Perceptions and Power
Guy. Puzey
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | : : Channel View Publications, , 2016.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (282 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Trends in Onomastics: An Introduction; Laura Kostanski and Guy Puzey; Part 1: The Varied Identities of People and Places; 1 Internet Personal Naming Practices and Trends in Scholarly Approaches; Katarzyna Aleksiejuk; 2 Visitor Experiences of Aboriginal Place Names in Colonial Victoria, Australia, 1834-1900; Ian D. Clark; 3 Introduced Personal Names for Australian Aborigines: Adaptations to an Exotic Anthroponymy; Michael Walsh; 4 Personal Naming and Community Practices in the Western Isles of Scotland: Putting Names in the 'Gaelic Sense'. - 10 Slang Toponyms in Hungary: A Survey of Attitudes Among Language UsersErzsébet Gyorffy; Part 3: Power, Resistance and Control; 11 Renaming as Counter-Hegemony: The Cases of Noreg and Padania; Guy Puzey; 12 Naming Parks, Footpaths and Small Bridges in a Multicultural Suburban Area; Staffan Nyström; 13 Personal Names in Language Policy and Planning: Who Plans What Names, for Whom and How?; Justyna B. Walkowiak; 14 Is the Official Use of Names in Norway Determined by the Place-Names Act or by Attitudes?; Aud-Kirsti Pedersen. - 15 The Power of Administration in the Official Recognition of Indigenous Place Names in the Nordic CountriesKaisa Rautio Helander; Index. - Ellen S. Bramwell5 Signs of/on Power, Power on/of Signs: Language-Based Tourism, Linguistic Landscapes and Onomastics on Norfolk Island; Peter Mühlhäusler and Joshua Nash; Part 2: Attitudes and Attachment; 6 The Controversy of Restoring Indigenous Names: Lessons Learnt and Strategies for Success; Laura Kostanski; 7 Attitudes to Street Names in Helsinki; Terhi Ainiala; 8 Linguistic Landscape and Inhabitants' Attitudes to Place Names in Multicultural Oslo; Maimu Berezkina; 9 Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon; Maggie Scott. - This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of critical onomastic enquiry. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own right.
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| ISBN | 9781783094905
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