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Onomastics has applications in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a popular approach in historical research, where it can be used to identify ethnic minorities within populations [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and for the purpose of prosopography .
In March 1953, the ANS began publishing Names, [5] "a journal of onomastics." [7] The first volume of Names was published in March 1953, edited by Erwin Gudde. [5]George R. Stewart, a founding member of the ANS, [8] described his vision for using Names to define the field of onomastics. [9]
Socio-onomastics is the study of names through a sociolinguistic lens, and is part of the broader topic of onomastics. Socio-onomastics 'examines the use and variety of names through methods that demonstrate the social, cultural, and situational conditions in name usage'. [ 1 ]
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.
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.
Anthroponymy is a branch of onomastics. Researchers in the field of anthroponymy are called anthroponymists . Since the study of anthroponyms is relevant for several other disciplines within social sciences and humanities , experts from those disciplines engage in anthroponymic studies, including researchers from the fields of anthropology ...
The International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS) is an international academic organization of scholars with a special interest in onomastics, the scientific study of names (e.g. place-names, personal names, and proper names of all other kinds). The official languages of ICOS are English, French, and German.
The distinction between onomastics and nomenclature is not readily clear: onomastics is an unfamiliar discipline to most people, and the use of nomenclature in an academic sense is also not commonly known. Although the two fields integrate, nomenclature concerns itself more with the rules and conventions that are used for the formation of names.