Need some fruitful summer reading? The latest issue of NoSo: the Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics was just online, with a special issue on “Names in the (re)construction of gender” guest edited by sociologist Jane Pilcher. The issue includes five interesting contributions on topics such as: the use of humour in patrilinear surnaming practices in Finland, men’s...
The new issue of the Journal “Onomastica desde América Latina” has been published online. It was edited by Dr. Eugen Schochenmaier (ICOS, e-Onomastics). DOI: https://doi.org/10.48075/odal.v5i1.33666 Keywords: biblical anthroponymy, proper names, onomastics, religious text, secular context ABSTRACT The dossier on biblical anthroponyms in secular contexts offers an in-depth exploration of how biblical names transcend their religious origins...
Call for Papers Names and World-building in Fantasy & Science Fictional Universes an organized session at the 2025 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 9-12 January 2025 The American Name Society is now inviting proposals for an organized session at the 2025 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. The theme of...
Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the 5th Czech Onomastic Conference, which will be held in Prague from April 7 to 10, 2025. More detailed information can be found on the conference website available at https://cok2025.avcr.cz/en/. Conference Theme and Sections: Onomastics is usually considered a linguistic area overlapping markedly with other disciplines....
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