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OverviewThe volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trends within socio-onomastics, interactional onomastics, contact onomastics, folk onomastics, and linguistic landscape studies. The volume is an introduction to these fields – with the introductory chapter giving an overview of, and an update on, recent onomastic study – and in addition offers detailed in-depth analyses of place names, person names, street names and commercial names from different perspectives: historically, as well as from the point of view of the impact of globalization and glocalization. All the chapters focus on the use and function of names and naming, on changes in name usage, and on the reasons for, processes in, and results of names in contact. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Terhi Ainiala (University of Helsinki) , Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 275 Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9789027256805ISBN 10: 9027256802 Pages: 231 Publication Date: 09 June 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. Chapter 1. Introduction: Socio-onomastics and pragmatics (by Ainiala, Terhi); 2. Part I. Tradition, identity and transmission; 3. Chapter 2. The transmission of toponyms in language shift societies (by Pedersen, Aud-Kirsti); 4. Chapter 3. Creating identities through the choice of first names (by Aldrin, Emilia); 5. Chapter 4. Naming of children in Finnish and Finnish-Norwegian families in Norway (by Alhaug, Gulbrand); 6. Chapter 5. Names in contact: Linguistic and social factors affecting exonyms and translated names (by Raukko, Jarno); 7. Part II. The variability of names; 8. Chapter 6. Orienting to norms: Variability in the use of names for Helsinki (by Ainiala, Terhi); 9. Chapter 7. Place names in contact: The use of Finnish place names in Swedish contexts in Helsinki (by Vidberg, Maria); 10. Chapter 8. Attitudes towards globalized company names (by Mattfolk, Leila); 11. Chapter 9. Naming businesses - in the context of bilingual Finnish cityscapes (by Syrjala, Vaino); 12. Chapter 10. The perception of Somali place names among immigrant Somali youth in Helsinki (by Ainiala, Terhi); 13. Subject indexReviewsThe volume as a whole provides an interesting and refreshing view of onomastics; the geographical focus on Finland and its Nordic neighbors brings the unexpected benefit of a view of the linguistic diversity, language contacts, and ongoing globalization that have shaped one area of the world. [...] Socio-onomastics should clearly prove of interest to scholars of names and naming, but also to those in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. -- Susan Meredith Burt, Illinois State University, on Linguist List 29.3569 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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