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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:54:10
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming: Hough (ed.)

 


Title: The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-names-and-naming-9780198815532 


Editor: Carole Hough

Paperback: ISBN:  9780198815532 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account
of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is
both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general
reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study
of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical
and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The
investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in
literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on
techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum
over the last few decades.

The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of
name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name
theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing
on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of
place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines
contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies
from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of
socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and
commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of
name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and
inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming
strategies adopted for them.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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