La présentation s’appuiera sur le premier chapitre du livre de l’auteur Théories et méthodes pour l’analyse des noms propres. Onomastique textuelle (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2022). On y abordera les éléments suivants : nom propre, marque et étiquette ; « sens » du nom propre ; signification du nom propre ; associations homonymiques ; associations...
Kyrgyzstan’s judicial bodies have recently issued a ruling that grants citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic the freedom to choose between a patronym and matronym, media reports. The new amendment to existing legal regulations has been declared final and mandatory for all departments and organizations by the Constitutional Court, with the requirement for approval by the...
The registration is now open for the 2023 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference on Names & Naming, taking place both online and in-person at Ertegun House, Oxford from the 20-21st of April. Anyone interested may view the full programme and register (for free) at https://oxgradconf.wixsite.com/omgc/2023-names-naming. We are also attaching a pdf of the programme that we...
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....
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...
The seminar “The Evolution of Shakespeare’s Names on Screen, Stage, and Page”, which will be convened during the 2023 conference organised by ESRA, thus invites contributions which include (but are not restricted to) the following topics: Shakespeare’s name changes within plays and from sources. From names to nicknames, a substantial number of names have...
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 Online31 March 2022, 2:00 PM (UTC)Martin ThieringPriv.-Doz. Dr. phil. habil., RWTH Aachen UniversityAssociate professor at Technische Universität BerlinResearch Group Leader at Max-Planck-Institut für KunstgeschichteToponyms and Landmarks as Cognitive Maps in Dene Chipewyan and Eipomek Abstract: This presentation focuses on spatial concepts primarily, but not exclusively in Dene Chipewyan (Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada) and...
DR. WOLFGANG AHRENS (January 4, 1940 – February 18, 2022) was a long-time member of ICOS, one of the organisers of the 23rd ICOS in Toronto, as well as one of the editors of the corresponding proceedings. Born in Germany, he moved with his family to Schwetzingen, a few years after World War Two,...
The International Council of Onomastic Sciences condemns the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the distorted representation of historical and cultural facts to legitimize its action. We would like to express our solidarity and sympathy with all people in Ukraine and especially Ukrainian colleagues who are suffering from this war. We would also like to emphasize that our...
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