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Author:   Carole Hough (Professor of Onomastics, Professor of Onomastics, University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.488kg
ISBN:  

9780199656431

ISBN 10:   0199656436
Pages:   800
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of figures List of abbreviations The contributors 1: Carole Hough: Introduction Part I: Onomastic Theory 2: Willy Van Langendonck and Mark Van de Velde: Names and grammar 3: Staffan Nyström: Names and meaning 4: Elwys De Stefani: Names and discourse Part II: Toponomastics 5: Simon Taylor: Methodologies in place-name research 6: Carole Hough: Settlement names 7: Svante Strandberg: River names 8: Peter Drummond: Hill and mountain names 9: Peder Gammeltoft: Island names 10: Julia Kuhn: Rural names 11: Bertie Neethling: Street names. A changing urban landscape 12: Stefan Brink: Transferred names and analogy in name-formation Part III: Anthroponomastics 13: Edwin D. Lawson: Personal naming systems 14: Katharina Leibring: Given names in European naming systems 15: Patrick Hanks and Harry Parkin: Family names 16: Eva Brylla: Bynames and nicknames 17: Adrian Koopman: Ethnonyms 18: Ellen S. Bramwell: Personal names and anthropology 19: George Redmonds: Personal names and genealogy Part IV: Literary Onomastics 20: Grant W. Smith: Theoretical foundations of literary onomastics 21: Bertie Neethling: Names in songs. A comparative analysis of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire and Christopher Torr's Hot Gates 22: Birgit Falck-Kjällquist: Genre-based approaches to names in literature 23: Karina van Dalen-Oskam: Corpus-based approaches to names in literature 24: Paul Cavill: Language-based approaches to names in literature Part V: Socio-onomastics 25: Terhi Ainiala: Names in society 26: Emilia Aldrin: Names and identity 27: Guy Puzey: Linguistic landscapes 28: Laura Kostanski: Toponymic attachment 29: Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker: Forms of address 30: Katarzyna Aleksiejuk: Pseudonyms 31: Paula Sjöblom: Commercial names Part VI: Onomastics and Other Disciplines 32: Richard Jones: Names and archaeology 33: Serge Brédart: Names and cognitive psychology 34: Margaret Scott: Names and dialectology 35: Peder Gammeltoft: Names and geography 36: Gillian Fellows-Jensen: Names and history 37: Richard Coates: Names and historical linguistics 38: Berit Sandnes: Names and language contact 39: Andreas Teutsch: Names and law 40: Alison Grant: Names and lexicography 41: Kay Muhr: Place-names and religion. A study of Early Christian Ireland Part VII: Other Types of Names 42: Guy Puzey: Aircraft names 43: Katharina Leibring: Animal names 44: Marc Alexander: Astronomical names 45: Adrian Koopman: Names of dwellings 46: Richard Coates: Railway locomotive names and train names 47: Malcolm Jones: Ship names References Index

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...likely to become one of the standard works of reference and, in fact, a must-have for everyone interested in the science of names and naming. It works both as a tool for individual researchers and as additional reading material in classes on onomastics and related fields. * Peter Backhaus, Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo, Linguist *

...likely to become one of the standard works of reference and, in fact, a must-have for everyone interested in the science of names and naming. It works both as a tool for individual researchers and as additional reading material in classes on onomastics and related fields. * Peter Backhaus, Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo, Linguist * There is no better single guide to the range, quality and potential of current onomastic research. * Peter McClure, Journal of the English Place-Name Society * a judicious synthesis covering a wide range of onomastic areas and it goes well beyond the historic-philological approach of traditional onomastic studies. Professor Hough is to be congratulated for having assembled a team of experts to produce a work of reference which will be most useful to professional onomasts and non-specialists alike. * John Insley, European Romantic Review *

Author Information

Carole Hough is Professor of Onomastics at the University of Glasgow, where she has lectured for nearly 20 years. She is a historical linguist with particular interests in the development of the English language and the role of name evidence. She has published extensively on name studies and other topics, and has served as President of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences and Convener of the Scottish Place-Name Society. She is currently President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Vice-President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and a Council Member of the English Place-Name Society.

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