As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to prevent face-to-face scientific meetings, ICOS wants to support sharing onomastic ideas by introducing a new initiative: Onomastics Online. Onomastics Online is a series of lectures dealing with important timely topics related to names and naming. Given by distinguished scholars from various academic backgrounds, the lectures demonstrate the importance and...
New book release – Tereza Klemensová: Zeměpisné názvy v pohraničí po roce 1945: na příkladu okresu Jeseník Klemensová’s new book focuses on toponyms (place names, minor place names and street names) in Czech border region – the former...
Call for Papers:Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN)56th Annual Meeting, held virtually in conjunction with theCongress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canadahttps://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2022May 14th and 15th, 2022 The theme of the 2022 Congress is: “Transitions” but papers on any onomastic topic are welcome.Presentations are allotted 20 minutes, with an additional 10...
Yesterday, we were so excited to see that our ONOMA Website had reached 30,000 visits. For less than 3 years of existence, it is a remarkable achievement for a journal focusing on the onomastics. Thank you all for your support, likes, and comments! Geography of the most active readers from 111 countries: TOP 10...
Dynamics of the Anthroponymic System Volume 56 of ICOS’ international journal Onoma contains nine articles under the theme Dynamics of the Anthroponymic System as well as an introduction by the guest editor Anna Choleva-Dimitrova. The articles deal with anthroponymic systems in Bulgaria, Czechia, Great Britain, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden and Turkey. They focus...
The book of Prof. Grant W. Smith “Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies” is finally available in paper format. Enjoy a 30% off promo code UCDY30 until February 6, 2022. Prof. Grant Smith is a well-known researcher with an excellent reputation in the onomastic world. For several decades he has had an intense activity,...
16 December 2021 r., 1:00 PM CET by Katalin Reszegi, University of Debrecen, Department of Hungarian Linguistics Cognitive approach in onomastics The cognitive approach and the frameworks of cognitive linguistics appeared practically in the 2000s in onomastic studies. Contrary to the short period of time, cognitive onomastics achieved remarkable results, that demonstrate that the...
Einladung zu den Tagungen Tagung der Gesellschaft für Namenforschung (GfN) e. V. Namen im Sprachgebrauch 20.04. – 21.04.2022 Tagung des Arbeitskreises für bayerisch-österreichische Namenforschung (ABÖN) Namen im Sprachgebrauch in Bayern und Österreich 22.04.2022 an der Universität Innsbruck Call for Papers Beide Tagungen werden aufgrund der pandemiebedingten Verschiebungen erstmals Rücken an Rücken und mit demselben...
From now on, you may find the most extensive list of the name-related periodicals on our ICOS Website under “Links” ! Enjoy it. The list contains names, publisher and/or expertise, years of publication, policy of full open access and languages in which the articles are to be accepted. Of course, the list given here...
RENCONTRE D’ONOMASTIQUE À QUERÉTARO (MEXIQUE) L’Institut National d’Anthropologie et d’Histoire, de par la Direction de Linguistique, ainsi que le Centre INAH du Querétaro, en coordination avec le Séminaire Interinstitutionnel d’Onomastique, appellent les chercheurs des différentes disciplines concernées à participer dans les III Journées Anthroponomastiques – Rencontre d’Onomastique à Querétaro qui auront lieu à l’auditorium...
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