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Personal names in Galicia in the eighteenth century
No full textIn this paper the anthroponymic system in XVIII century in Galicia is analysed. The corpus consists of data from the Catastro del Marqués de Ensenada, a main resource for the population at that time. The medieval system has changed, as the -ez suffix is not patronymic anymore and the surname is becoming hereditary, a second surname begun to appear, and new first names are emerging, all of them from saints of Catholics, as part of the strategy after the Council of Trent. Furthermore, as the Galician language has been removed from the written texts, the Hispanicization of proper names begun, translating the first names and translating or garbling the surnames
Zur Entwicklung deutscher Zunamen in neuerer Zeit: Beobachtungen an Adressbüchern der Stadt Dresden
Full text linkTaking the oldest city directories of Dresden as an example, the article wants to draw the onomasticians’ attention to a special kind of research sources which has been largely ignored thus far. Initial analyses of selected linguistic and onomastic items show that due to the digital accessibility of these corpora more detailed knowledge, mainly concerning the development of personal names in the 18th and 19th centuries, should be possible
Zur Namengebung Balzacs in der ‘Comédie humaine’: Ein Beitrag zur literarischen Onomastik
Full text linkAbout Balzac’s naming in the ‘Comédie humaine’. A contribution to literary onomastics. What do Gobseck, Grégoire Rigou and La Torpille have in common? There are three of about 2000 characters’ names of the ‘Comédie humaine’ (1842-1855) by Honoré de Balzac. However, they not only designate the figures, they also draw them: in character, biographically, mystifying, playing with semantics, sound, intertextuality and the theory of predetermination by a name. The essay, basing on the author’s MA thesis in 2002, deals with the wide landscape of personal names in Balzac’s cycle of 98 novels and short stories, embedded in the typologies of literary names of Lamping, Birus and others. Numerous examples show how Balzac understood names as action-bearing and connecting text elements and how he used the expressiveness of names as a great narrator. His special gift of finding names does not contradict his intention to create fictionally a realistic image of the French society. By analyzing Balzac’s names, the essay seeks to sensitize the readers for their own excursions into literary onomastics
Zu dem zweinamigen merowingischen Prätendenten Ballomeris–Gundovald
Full text linkThe focus is on the name(s) of the Merovingian pretender Ballomeris–Gundovald (†585). Notwithstanding the prejudice of many historians Ballomeris is not an invective but a given name. The component -meris was characteristically for traditional names of princely Francs (4th to 6th century), the component gunthi- appears more ‘modern’. (Furthermore the stems balþa > ballo ‘brave’ and vald ‘to rule’ were often confused.) So the change of name reflects the changing role from illegitimate son of a king to a claimant for dynastical participation and at least for kingship. Unfortunately the perspective of the prejudice mentioned above hampered for a long time the consideration of Ballomeris as a name (not as a word) and blocked the use of onomastics in this case
Zwischen linguistischen Welten: Onymische Phraseme als Phraseologismen und Eigennamen
Full text linkThis paper provides an overview of the discussion on so called onymic phrasemes. In onomastics they are usually described as fixed combinations of words functioning as proper names (proper noun phrases). The focus hereby is on those names that are not only polylexical and semantically transparent (cf. the White House, the “new Länder“) but also have an apparent literal meaning (cf. appellative/ descriptive meaning) and a non-literal meaning (‘specific/ assigned meaning’). Phraseology integrates those names as a special class of phrasemes or more precisely as nominative phrasemes with the feature [+ onymic]. Like all phrasemes, they are polylexical and rigid and develop a “new meaning” which should be modeled along theoretical conceptions. Upon closer inspection one can also find correlations along the lines of questions of meaning, phraseologization, proprialization, as well as idiomatization and dissociation. Problems in lexicography and orthography result from the status of onymic phrasemes of the type the Far East. Whether or not onomastics and phraseology should work together more closely on this topic or distance themselves from one another can only be determined once the discipline of onomastics is more engaged with phraseolexemes of the type [+ onymic/ monoreferential]. The aim of this paper is to call attention to similarities and differences between these two fields
Remotivierung bei Eigennamen: Kontingenz – Typologie – Theorie
Full text linkRemotivation, conceived as a combination of semantic re-interpretation and formal re-segmentation, does not only affect appellative signs, but also proper names. First, remotivation processes are contrasted with demotivation processes (de-semantization and de-segmentation) and it is argued against the claim of uni-directionality. Then, four types of remotivation of proper names are elaborated: the sign-based semantic strategies of (1) reanalysis (of words [folk etymology], of clitics, and of affixes) and (2) pleonastic/tautologic doubling (of morphemes); furthermore the usage-based pragmatic strategies of (3) re-contextualization (of context-independent signs) and (4) re-locution (of illocutively meant signs). These processes turn out to be high-grade contingent in the way which linguistic material the speakers/hearers grasp to do their remotivation
Phraseonymie: Die Phraseologie im Dienste französischer Ergonyme
Full text linkThe present study is intended to contribute to a deeper insight in the field of nomination for commercial purposes by means of phraseological units. The article focusses on French names of restaurants and stores, which can be considered at the intersection of brand names, as they have much in common with their functions, and names of settlements. The investigation reveals that phrasemes are not only widely used in advertising in general, but that their occurrence in nomination deserves more attention. These reflections lead us to the term of “phraseonymy”, a phenomenon that ought to be studied at a larger scale, including other romance languages and also considering the recipient’s perspective
Niederdeutsche Vereinsnamen im Dialekt und ihr Beitrag zur Konzeptualisierung des Niederdeutschen
Full text linkLow German is widely associated with such terms as humour, congeniality, and honesty. They are a result of the tension in the national language’s variational spectrum. This is reflected in the choice of names für North German clubs and associations, clubs devoted to the maintenance of local and regional traditions in the broadest sense: a history club is called Tru un fast, a theater club Snackfatt, and a choir Plattdeutsche Schreihälse, for example. Such names are gaining momentary importance in the description of linguistic landscapes attesting to the multilingualism and charm of a region. In tourism and its search for authenticity, this is in fact economic capital. The science of onomastics should pay more attention to the names and naming of clubs
Rezension zu Onomastica Canadiana 94/2 (2015)
No full textOnomastica Canadiana, Band 94, No. 2 (Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names/Revue de la Société canadienne d\u27onomastique). Redaktion: Carol J. Léonard (University of Alberta, Canada) and Donna L. Lillian (Appalachian Sate University, Boone, NC, USA). Edmonton, Alberta: Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, 2015, 40 S. – ISSN 0078-4656
Rezension zu Tomáš Klír et al., Knihy chebské zemské berně z let 1438 a 1456 [Landsteuerbücher zum Egerland aus den Jahren 1438 und 1456]
No full textTomáš Klír et al., Knihy chebské zemské berně z let 1438 a 1456 [Landsteuerbücher zum Egerland aus den Jahren 1438 und 1456] (= Libri Civitatis X), Praha - Ústí nad Labem 2016, 712 S. (mit ausführlicher deutscher Zusammenfassung