31.1522, Books: Sunnyside: Wright

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Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 21:09:38
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Sunnyside: Wright

 


Title: Sunnyside 
Subtitle: A Sociolinguistic History of British House Names 
Series Title: British Academy Monographs  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sunnyside-9780197266557?q=9780197266557&cc=us&lang=en 


Author: Laura Wright

Hardback: ISBN:  9780197266557 Pages: 250 Price: U.S. $ 70.00


Abstract:

This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from
the earliest written evidence (Beowulf's Heorot) to the twentieth century.
Chapters 1 and 2 track changes from medieval naming practices such as
Ceolmundingchaga and Prestebures, to present-day house names such as Fairholme
and Oakdene: that is, the shift from recording the name of the householder
(Sabelinesbury, 'Sabeline's manor'), the householder's occupation (le
Taninghus, 'the tannery') and the appearance of the house (le Brodedore, 'the
broad door'); to the five main categories still in use today: the transferred
place-name (Aberdeen House), the nostalgically rural (Springfield), the
commemorative (Blenheim Palace), the upwardly mobile (Vernon Lodge), and the
latest fashion (Fernville). The development and demise of pub names and shop
names such as la Worm on the Hope and the Golden Tea Kettle & Speaking Trumpet
are detailed, and the rise of heraldic names such as the Red Lion is
explained. Chapters 3-5 track the house name Sunnyside backwards in time to
prehistory, through English, Latin, Scottish Gaelic, and the influence of Old
Norse. Sunnyside's ancient origins lie in the Nordic practice of solskifte, a
prehistoric method of dividing up land according to position of shadows, but
the name was boosted in the eighteenth century by Nonconformists (especially
Quakers), who took it to America, and in the nineteenth century by American
celebrity influence. The book contains an appendix of the earliest London
house names to the year 1400, and a gazetteer of historic Sunnysides.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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