Unconventional anthroponyms : formation patterns and discursive function / edited by Daiana Felecan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PART ONE; VOCATIVES AS MITIGATORSIN FACE-THREATENING CONTEXTS; PROLEGOMENA TO A DIFFERENTKIND OF NAMING; UNCONVENTIONAL USES OF PROPER NAMES; UNCONVENTIONAL; PART TWO; NAMES OF ABANDONED CHILDREN; UNCONVENTIONAL ANTHROPONYMSIN THE HUNGARIAN SURNAME SYSTEM; NICKNAMES OR COLLECTIVE BYNAMES?; UNCONVENTIONAL FIRST NAMES; CROSSING CULTURALAND LINGUISTIC BOUNDARIES; ANTHROPONYMS IN ADVERTISING TEXTS(THE CASE OF RUSSIAN TELEVISIONCOMMERCIALS); THE PROSCRIPTION AND LEGITIMISATIONOF NAMES IN JAPAN.

IDENTITY CONCEALMENT IN PERSONAL NAMECHANGE, ANONYMITY AND PSEUDONYMITYANTHROPONYMS IN THE DIGITAL AGE; BYNAMES OF MEDIEVAL ROMANIANVOIVODES AND RULERS; ANTHROPONOMASTIC PUNS IN THE ANCIENTEGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC SCRIPT, WITH CONSIDERATIONS ON ONOMASTICPUNNING IN DIFFERENT SCRIPT SYSTEMS; FACETS OF ANTHROPONOMASTICS, EXPLANATION AND PLAYFULNESS; ONOMASTIC PUNS AND FORMALARGUMENTATION; PISAN AFFAIRS IN DIPLOMATICCORRESPONDENCE FROM TUNIS, IN 1227; SPELLING INNOVATIONS IN TWENTIETHCENTURYITALIAN ANTHROPONYMY; DO BORDERS AND PROVINCIAL BOUNDARIESPREVENT NICKNAMES FROM CROSSINGTHE LINE?

CODE NAMES IN COMMUNIST ROMANIARECENT CHILD NAMING PRACTICES IN JAPAN; COGNITIVE AND CULTURAL PECULIARITIESOF NICKNAMING IN THE MACRO-SOCIALGROUPS "POLITICS," "SPORT"AND "ENTERTAINMENT"; PART THREE; NAMES AS MECHANISMSOF DECONSTRUCTION IN ANGELA CARTER'SNIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS; DOSTOEVSKY AND SURNAMESOF HIS CHARACTERS IN ERGONYMY; KIDOR; REVISITING FRANCIS LEE UTLEY'S 1941STUDY "THE ONE HUNDRED AND THREENAMES OF NOAH'S WIFE"; SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE VALUEOF ONOMASTICS IN THE WORKOF JULES VERNE; PART FOUR.

THE DESIGN OF THE PHONO-SEMANTICMATCHING (PSM) MODULEOF THE GALLURA ARCHITECTUREFOR GENERATING HUMOROUSAETIOLOGICAL TALESINDEX AUCTORUM ET OPERUM; INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM.

Unconventional Anthroponyms: Formation Patterns and Discursive Function continues a series of collective volumes comprising studies on onomastics, edited by Oliviu Felecan with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Previous titles in this series include Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (2012) and Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space (2013, co-edited with Alina Bughesiu). In contemporary naming practice, one can distinguish two verbal (linguistic) means of nominal referenti ...

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