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Names is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that is devoted to the scholarly investigation of names and naming . Established in 1952, this open-access journal is published by the University of Pittsburgh. It is the official journal of the American Name Society. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor I. M. Nick, Past President of the American ...
The Best Article in Names: A Journal of Onomastics is given to the one article per year that the journal Editorial Board selects as demonstrating the highest level of methodological innovation, exhibiting exemplary style and organization; and promising to make the most significant contribution to the scholarly investigation of names and naming.
Onomastics (or onomatology in older texts) is the study of proper names, including their etymology, history, and use. An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians.
Socio-onomastics 'examines the use and variety of names through methods that demonstrate the social, cultural, and situational conditions in name usage'. [1] As a discipline, it aims to explore 'the social origin and use of different variants of proper names within various situations and contexts', including both place names and personal names. [2]
Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The main article for this category is Onomastics . NOTE: Articles in this category were cleaned up and removed in accordance with the Wikipedia:SU project.
Alexander Borisovich Beider (Russian: Александр Борисович Бейдер, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪdʑ ˈbejdʲɪr]; Yiddish: אלכסנדר ביידער, IPA: [alɛkˈsandər ˈbɛɪdər]) is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish.
Names are words or terms used for identification. Names may also refer to: Names, by Johnny Foreigner; Names, an academic journal of onomastics; The Names (band), a Belgian post-punk band; The Names, by Don DeLillo; Names Hill, a bluff on the Green River in Wyoming, US "Names", a song by Cat Power from You Are Free
Brunhilde is a German feminine given name, derived from a combination of the Germanic word elements brun, or armor, and hild, or battle. The Valkyrie Brunhild is a heroine of Germanic heroic legend. [2] Variants in regular use include the Albanian, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Brunilda and Brunilde; the Norwegian Brynhild; and the Icelandic ...