The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming

Herausgeber: Hough, Carole

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This handbook offers an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful for specialists and accessible to the general reader. International experts examine name theory, place and personal names, names in literature, socio-onomastics, names and other disciplines, and other types of names.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1368g
• ISBN-13: 9780198815532
• ISBN-10: 0198815530
• Artikelnr.: 48748665

Autorenporträt

Carole Hough is Professor of Onomastics at the University of Glasgow, where she has lectured for nearly 20 years. She is a historical linguist with particular interests in the development of the English language and the role of name evidence. She has published extensively on name studies and other topics and is currently President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Vice-President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and a Council Member of the English Place-Name Society.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* List of Abbreviations
* List of Contributors
* 1: Carole Hough: Introduction
* Part I: Onomastic Theory
* 2: Willy Van Langendonck and Mark Van De Velde: Names and Grammar
* 3: Staffan Nyström: Names and Meaning
* 4: Elwys De Stefani: Names and Discourse
* Part II: Toponomastics
* 5: Simon Taylor: Methodologies in Place-name Research
* 6: Carole Hough: Settlement Names
* 7: Svante Strandberg: River Names
* 8: Peter Drummond: Hill and Mountain Names
* 9: Peder Gammeltoft: Island Names
* 10: Julia Kuhn: Rural Names
* 11: Bertie Neethling: Street Names: A Changing Urban Landscape
* 12: Stefan Brink: Transferred Names and Analogy in Name-formation
* Part III: Anthroponomastics
* 13: Edwin D. Lawson: Personal Naming Systems
* 14: Katharina Leibring: Given Names in European Naming Systems
* 15: Patrick Hanks and Harry Parkin: Family Names
* 16: Eva Bryllä^: Bynames and Nicknames
* 17: Adrian Koopman: Ethnonyms
* 18: Ellen S. Bramwell: Personal Names and Anthropology
* 19: George Redmonds: Personal Names and Genealogy
* Part IV: Literary Onomastics
* 20: Grant W. Smith: Theoretical Foundations of Literary Onomastics
* 21: Bertie Neethling: Names in Songs: A Comparative Analysis of Billy
Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire and Christopher Torr's Hot Gates
* 22: Birgit Falck-Kjällquist: Genre-based Approaches to Names in
Literature
* 23: Karina van Dalen-Oskam: Corpus-based Approaches to Names in
Literature
* 24: Paul Cavill: Language-based Approaches to Names in Literature
* Part V: Socio-onomastics
* 25: Terhi Ainiala: Names in Society
* 26: Emilia Aldrin: Names and Identity
* 27: Guy Puzey: Linguistic Landscapes
* 28: Laura Kostanski: Toponymic Attachment
* 29: Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker: Forms of Address
* 30: Katarzyna Aleksiejuk: Pseudonyms
* 31: Paula Sjöblom: Commercial Names
* Part VI: Onomastics and Other Disciplines
* 32: Richard Jones: Names and Archaeology
* 33: Serge Brédart: Names and Cognitive Psychology
* 34: Margaret Scott: Names and Dialectology
* 35: Peder Gammeltoft: Names and Geography
* 36: Gillian Fellows-Jensen: Names and History
* 37: Richard Coates: Names and Historical Linguistics
* 38: Berit Sandnes: Names and Language Contact
* 39: Andreas Teutsch: Names and Law
* 40: Alison Grant: Names and Lexicography
* 41: Kay Muhr: Place-names and Religion: A Study of Early Christian
Ireland
* Part VII: Other Types of Names
* 42: Guy Puzey: Aircraft Names
* 43: Katharina Leibring: Animal Names
* 44: Marc Alexander: Astronomical Names
* 45: Adrian Koopman: Names of Dwellings
* 46: Richard Coates: Railway Locomotive Names and Train Names
* 47: Malcolm Jones: Ship Names
* Bibliography
* Subject Index
* Index of Languages