Socio-onomastics : the pragmatics of names /

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by l...

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Group Author: Ainiala, Terhi; Östman, Jan-Ola
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS), volume 275
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Summary: The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trends within socio-onomastics, interactional onomastics, contact onomastics, folk onomastics, and linguistic landscape studies. The volume is an introdu
Carrier Form: vi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9789027256805
Index Number: P323
CLC: K810.2-05
Call Number: K810.2-05/S678