Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of names and naming / edited by Carole Hough with assistance from Daria Izdebska.

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hough, Carole.
• Izdebska, Daria.

Description

xxiii, 771 pages ; illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Series Statement

• Oxford handbooks in linguistics
• [Oxford Handbooks]

Uniform Title

• Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
• Oxford handbooks.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of names and naming
• Names and naming

Subjects

• Onomastics
• Names

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 661-756) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Carole Hough -- Part I. Onomastic theory. Names and grammar / Willy Van Langendonck and Mark Van de Velde ; Names and meaning / Staffan Nyström ; Names and discourse / Elwys De Stafani -- Part II. Toponomastics. Methodologies in place-name research / Simon Taylor ; Settlement names / Carole Hough ; River names / Svante Strandberg ; Hill and mountain names / Peter Drummond ; Island names / Peder Gammeltoft ; Rural names / Julia Kuhn ; Street names: a changing urban landscape / Bertie Neethling ; Transferred names and analogy in name-formation / Stefan Brink -- Part III. Anthroponomastics. Personal naming systems / Edwin D. Lawson ; Given names in European naming systems / Katharina Leibring ; Family names / Patrick Hanks and Harry Parkin ; Bynames and nicknames / Eva Brylla ; Ethnonyms / Adrian Koopman ; Person names and Anthropology / Ellen S. Bramwell ; Personal names and Genealogy / George Redmonds -- Part IV. Literary Onomastics. Theoretical foundations of literary onomastics / Grant W. Smith ; Names in songs: a comparative analysis of Billy Joel's We didn't start the fire and Christopher Torr's Hot gates / Bertie Neethling ; Genre-based approaches to names in literature / Birgit Falck-Kjällquist ; Corpus-based approaches to names in literature / Karina Van Dalen-Oskam ; Language-based approaches to names in literature / Paul Cavill -- Part V. Socio-Onomastics. Names in society / Terhi Ainiala ; Names and identity / Emilia Aldrin ; Linguistic landscapes / Guy Puzey ; Toponymic attachment / Laura Kostanski ; Forms of address / Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker ; Pseudonyms / Katarzyna Aleksiejuk ; Commercial names / Paula Sjöblom -- Part VI. Onomastics and other disciplines. Names and Archaeology / Richard Jones ; Names and Cognitive Psychology / Serge Brédart ; Names and Dialectology / Margaret Scott ; Names and Geography / Peder Gammeltoft ; Names and History / Gillian Fellows-Jensen ; Names and Historical Linguistics / Richard Coates ; Names and language contact / Berit Sandnes ; Names and Law / Andreas Teutsch ; Names and Lexicography / Alison Grant ; Place-names and Religion: a study of early Christian Ireland / Kay Muhr -- Part VII. Other types of names. Aircraft names / Guy Puzey ; Animal names / Katharina Leibring ; Astronomical names / Marc Alexander ; Names of dwellings / Adrian Koopman ; Railway locomotive names and train names / Richard Coates ; Ship names / Malcolm Jones.

Call Number

JFF 16-648

ISBN

• 9780199656431
• 0199656436

OCLC

917362682

Title

The Oxford handbook of names and naming / edited by Carole Hough with assistance from Daria Izdebska.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford handbooks in linguistics

[Oxford Handbooks]

Oxford handbooks in linguistics.

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 661-756) and indexes.

Added Author

Hough, Carole.

Izdebska, Daria.

Research Call Number

JFF 16-648