Dear ICOS members, Please find attached the call for papers for the 58th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) (June 15-16, 2024, McGill University, Canada). The conference will be held in conjunction with the Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) of Canada. The theme of the...
Dear ICOS members, Here is a reminder of the ICOS Onomastics Online lecture in May: 9 May 2023, 1:00 PM (UTC) Emilia Aldrin (Halmstad University): “Names as resources for identity construction“ Link to the Zoom Meeting: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/64438496192?pwd=TUNMN0dPa0NDbmtGaElkemRoMGVjQT09 Abstract here: https://icosweb.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Aldrin.pdf Please visit https://icosweb.net/onomastics-online/ for the links to the recordings of our past events.
20 April 2023 (CEST: 3 pm, UTC: 1 pm, KST: 10 pm) Abstract: As a valid tool representing social constructs, place names contain various facets, encompassing cultural, linguistic, political and economic ones. When place names are given economic values, they are acting as brands; they are commodified and becoming commodities; they are subject to...
A new issue of RIOn journal has been released. Rivista Italiana di Onomastica was founded in 1995 to promote and valorise Italian studies covering all fields of onomastics with particular attention to the areas where linguistic, literary and philological sciences come into contact with other disciplines: history, psychology, sociology, demography, statistics, law, geography and archaeology....
New book release – Jaroslav David, Tereza Klemensová, Michal Místecký et al. Od etymologie ke krajině — onomastika pro 21. století . Ostrava – Brno, 2022, 444 pages. The new book, consisting of 27 chapters grouped into four thematic sections, has attempted to answer a...
Dear all, This is our reminder of our November lecture of the Onomastics Online series that is coming soon this month. Enclosed please find the abstract. 10 November 2022, 4 p.m. (CET) Rita Brdar-Szabó & Mario Brdar: Anthroponymy: More metaphor and metonymy than meets the eye Link to the Zoom event Please be reminded that you...
Onomastics Online18 May 2022, 2:00 PM (UTC)Richard CoatesUniversity of the West of England, Bristol, UKIntroducing The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) Abstract: This lecture is a basic guide to the theory of names that I have been working on since about 2000, and exposed first in my article in Language 82 (2006). It will...
Reszegi Katalin. Kognitív szemléletű névtudományi vizsgálatok. A Magyar Névarchívum Kiadványai 54. Debrecen, Debreceni Egyetemi Kiadó, 2022. 264 lap. (with an English summary, Cognitive approach in onomastics, 211-226) This book presents the several aspects of name giving and name usage within a cognitive framework, using the most influential theories of cognitive...
Onomastics Online11 April 2022, 10:00 AM (UTC)Dr. Kimberly Klassen (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)The lexical load of proper names for second language readers of English Abstract: It is widely assumed by vocabulary researchers of English as a second language (L2) that proper names do not present a burden to L2 readers: the initial capital letter...
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