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2. Names (journal) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. International Council of Onomastic Sciences - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. American Name Society - Wikipedia

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   The American Name Society (ANS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad. [1] The organization investigates cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names.

5. Onomastics - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Onomasiology - Wikipedia

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   Onomasiology (from Greek: ὀνομάζω onomāzο 'to name', which in turn is from ὄνομα onoma 'name') is a branch of linguistics concerned with the question "how do you express X?" It is in fact most commonly understood as a branch of lexicology , the study of words (although some apply the term also to grammar and conversation).

7. Socio-onomastics - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. Category:Onomastics - Wikipedia

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   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.

9. Names (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   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