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Volume 4 – Theory and Methodology. Socio-Onomastics ‘Names and Their Environment’ Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014 Volume 4 Theory and Methodology Socio-onomastics Edited by Carole Hough Daria Izdebska University of Glasgow Glasgow 2016 ISBN 10: 0-85261-947-2 (for a set of five volumes) ISBN 13: 978-0-85261-947-6 The articles in this publication are © 2016 with the individual authors. They are made freely available under the terms of the Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For details, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Table of Contents (Volume 4) Theory and Methodology ...................................................................................................... 1 Bloothooft, Gerrit et al. (The Netherlands and other countries) European Surname Typology Project (abstract) ............................................................. 2 Brendler, Silvio (Germany) Names in the Eye of the Beholder, or Advanced Metalanguage for Discussing Names (abstract) ............................................................................................................ 3 Bušs, Ojārs (Latvia) Some Theoretical Aspects of the Translation of Proper Names ...................................... 4 Edwards, Tara (United States of America) Planning a Reverse Thematic Dictionary ...................................................................... 11 Felecan, Daiana and Alina Bugheșiu (Romania) Anthroponyms in Taboo Discourse: The Case of Romanian Swear Phrases ................. 21 Hamilton, Rachael, Ellen Bramwell and Carole Hough (United Kingdom) Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus: A New Resource for Investigating Metaphor in Names ................................................................................. 33 Havlík, Martin (The Czech Republic) Can Czechs Read Polish Names? Problems with the Adaptation of Foreign Anthroponyms and Toponyms ...................................................................................... 41 Helleland, Botolv (Norway) The Great Onomastic Divide in Norway: The Standardizing Problem of Settlement (Farm) Names after 400 Years of Danish Influence ..................................................... 51 Jílková, Lucie (The Czech Republic) Pronunciation of Hungarian Proper Names in Czech .................................................... 60 Karpenko, Olena (Ukraine) Cognitive Onomastics .................................................................................................. 69 Leino, Antti (Finland) Heraldry as a Name System ......................................................................................... 75 Luneschi, Francescu Maria (France) La dénomination des chèvres en corse : du nom commun au nom propre ..................... 82 Majewska, Ewa (Polen) Eponyme in der deutschsprachigen medizinischen Fachpresse ..................................... 94 Nanetti, Andrea, Francesco Perono Cacciafoco and Mario Giberti (Singapore / Italy) Mapping and Visualizing Linguistic and Territorial Convergent Data: Imola and Its Environment as a Case Study ..................................................................................... 106 Nilsson, Leif (Sweden) Place Names, Addresses and Standardization. A Summing-up of a Swedish Project (abstract) .................................................................................................................... 118 Rangel Vicente, Montserrat (Espagne / France) Pour une structuration prototypique de la catégorie nom propre en français ............... 119 Rapa, Sanda (Latvia) Some Semantic Universals in Latvian Toponymy ...................................................... 135 Robinson, David (United Kingdom) Onomastics vs Etymology (abstract) .......................................................................... 144 Rodríguez, Gabriele and Aliye Mehrebani-Yasyba (Germany) A Dictionary of Turkic Names in Germany and Austria: A Book Project .................. 145 Rsaliyeva, Nursaule and Kyzdarkhan Rysbergen (Kazakhstan) Onomastic Space of Kazakhstan: Current Condition and Problems ............................ 153 Rus, Georgeta (Roumanie) Perspective Traductive et Statistique de la Traduction du Nom Propre. Le Cas de l'Anthroponyme (abstract) .......................................................................................... 166 Rutkiewicz-Hanczewska, Małgorzata (Poland) Semantics of Proper Names. The Structure of the Mental Lexicon of Proper Names . 167 Štěpánová, Veronika (The Czech Republic) How Should These Names Be Pronounced? Specific Phonetic Features of Proper Names in Czech ......................................................................................................... 179 Todman, Amy and Leonie M. Dunlop (United Kingdom) Contemporary and Antiquarian Views as Evidence for Toponymic Research: A Comparative Study of the Bass Rock and Greendykes Bing ....................................... 188 Torensjö, Annette (Sweden) Geographical Names Network in Sweden Has an Eye on Names! (abstract) .............. 194 Socio-onomastics .............................................................................................................. 195 Aleksiejuk, Katarzyna (United Kingdom) Usernames and Identity Construction on RuNet as Seen in the Example of the Posidelki (‘Gatherings’) Forum .................................................................................. 196 Bramwell, Ellen (United Kingdom) Personal Naming in Scottish Communities (abstract) ................................................. 207 Carsenat, Elian and Evgeny Shokhenmayer (France / Germany) Onomastics to Measure Cultural Bias in Medical Research ........................................ 208 Crook, Alice (United Kingdom) An Overview of Personal Naming Practices in Scotland, 1680-1840 ......................... 221 Embleton, Sheila (Canada) The Diverse Naming Patterns of Contemporary India (abstract) ................................ 232 Frändén, Märit (Sweden) Surnames in the Melting Pot: Presentation of a Project on Surnames and Immigration ............................................................................................................... 233 Hämäläinen, Lasse (Finland) User Names in Finnish Online Communities (abstract) .............................................. 238 Koopman, Adrian (South Africa) Naming ‘the Other’: Derogatory Ethnonyms in the Nguni Kingdom in the Early 1800s (abstract) .......................................................................................................... 239 Léonard, Carol (Canada) Toponymy and Vivification of Identity Among School-Age Children (abstract) ........ 240 Mori, Olga (Germany) For or Against Renaming Hindenburgplatz in Münster, Germany .............................. 241 Nair, Gwyneth and Jennifer Scherr (United Kingdom) What Were Women Really Called? Pet Forms of Female Names in English Parish Registers, 1540-1800.................................................................................................. 256 Nakari, Minna (Finland) Variation in Women’s Name Phrases in Official Documents in Helsinki 1780-1930 .................................................................................................................. 263 Radding, Lisa (United States of America) Marketing Software: Environmental Complications to Predicting Ethnicity with Onomastics (abstract) ................................................................................................. 271 Rajasuu, Riitta (Finnland) Die Verbreitung der Mehrnamigkeit in Finnland in den Jahren 1725-1744 und 1825-1844 .................................................................................................................. 272 Særheim, Inge (Norway) Place Names in Oral Tradition: Sources of Local Language and Cultural History ...... 285 Schraagen, Marijn and Gerrit Bloothooft (The Netherlands) Large Scale Harvesting of Variants of Proper Names (abstract) ................................. 293 Sjöblom, Paula, Ulla Hakala and Satu-Päivi Kantola (Finland) Municipality Names in Consolidations: What Happens to Place Branding? ............... 294 Sofinska, Iryna (Ukraine) Application of Names in Ukraine: A Modern Discourse Towards European Integration .................................................................................................................. 302 Tort-Donada, Joan (Spain) Toponyms as Memory Marks (abstract) ..................................................................... 312 Walkowiak, Justyna B. (Poland) Lithuanisation of Personal Names of the Polish Minority in Lithuania ....................... 313 Theory and Methodology European Surname Typology Project Gerrit Bloothooft, Leendert Brower, Enzo Caffarelli, Pascal Chareille, Pierre Darlu, Kathrin Draeger, Jean Germain, Antonella Lisa, Claire Muller and Roberto Rodriguez The Netherlands and other countries Abstract A European project on the typology of surnames has been launched recently with the aim to describe the geographical distribution of surnames in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. This distribution has typical patterns both within and between countries. It is assumed that these patterns can be explained by factors acting on the naming system established around the 13th century, among them linguistic diversity, political and religious influences, and social structure. Studying the current geographical distribution of the various categories of surnames at an European scale may help to clarify how surnames and their categories have been introduced
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