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Interonymity. Wilhelm Raabe‘s story Gutmann’s Travels
No full textIn 1860, the young novelist Wilhelm Raabe travelled to Coburg to attend the first meeting of the Deutscher Nationalverein (German National Assembly), whose aim was the unification by peaceful means of the countless German states and principalities. Thirty years later he re-worked his memories into the novel Gutmanns Reisen (Gutmann’s Travels). Instead of narrating his experiences directly, he chooses a very indirect form of narration, in which intertextuality – and especially interonymity – plays a dominant role. The novel displays three levels of interonymic reference: The reference to a didactic 18th-century travel book featuring the Gutmann family, the reference to Goethe’s idyllic epos Hermann and Dorothea, and the reference to names from novels written by the German poet Jean Paul and to places where he lived. All these interonymic devices serve to distance Raabe’s novel from the actual events he experienced, and they embroil the reader in an interonymic game in which the artificiality of literature becomes obvious
Petter Wenger der Müller – Petter Müller genant Wenger. Personal names and forms of naming in early modern property registers from the Canton of Bern
No full textThis paper deals with the use of personal names and the tradition of their written form in historical administrative documents of the 16th century from the area of today’s Canton of Bern. This study examines variation in the use of different naming forms, which were used to designate people who have to pay interest in official property registers (referred to as Urbare), and presents results from the investigation (cf. Heer 2022). In these books, people’s names are listed in quite different ways: With the overall name (Gesamtname) consisting of first name and surname (e. g. Hanns Bannwart; Üli Abbül), with various individual apposition that refer, for example, to kinship or family relationships (e. g. Peter Knörj der eltter; Cristina Cristann Griessenn seligen ewirttj) or give an indication as to the craft activity of the name bearer(s) (e. g. Michel Leman der wäber; Hans Schneewlj der gerber). These name elements can also appear in varying forms (e. g. Ita ëgel vs. Itÿ die wittwen Ülÿ ëgels). The examples show that although a two namedness (Zweinamigkeit) with a fixed surname had become established by this point, a myriad of different naming forms is uncovered, reflecting social naming practices within a society. This article discusses variation in personal names and naming forms, exploring the questions as the which extralinguistic factors influenced these forms and variants and how name use marked social and economic affiliations
„… from tomorrow we will call ourselves Ultras ...“ The names of Ultra fan groups in German football leagues
No full textThis article deals with the as yet unexplored class of fan group names and shows that they form a separate subclass of ergonyms. Fan group names from the so-called ultra scene are characterized by unique formation patterns, naming motifs and naming fashions, which can be observed from their distribution and development. For this purpose, we analysed 305 names of fan groups active in Germany in the period from 2016 to 2021.The analytic strategies included analysing the individual fan group names themselves, information about these names presented in fan magazines, on internet sites, interviews in fan media, and individual statements from fan groups that were requested for this study.The results indicate that fan group names are typically formed from the combination of certain components: nickname, place name, founding year, and fan cult name. Most of the fan group names consist of two to four of these components. Similarities to and differences from the formation patterns of company names and club names were discussed.Additionally, eleven naming motifs were highlighted, of which the motifs fan culture, origin and community were most prominent. The motifs club, masculinity, military, youth, anarchy, violence, passion and (sub)culture were also found.An analysis of the explanations given for the names showed clearly that a person’s own fan group name is generally extremely important and that the process of naming is complex. These names thus have an identity-forming effect for the fan groups and often refer to fan culture and practice
Antique long-distance transport routes in Luxembourg. Potential reconstructions based on the etymology and distribution of microtoponyms
No full textThis article seeks to extend and enhance knowledge about road networks in late antiquity (and later) within the borders of the modern Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Using microtoponyms and onomastic cartography, the article seeks to reconstruct the actual course of ancient Roman road networks. The interlinking nodes of these networks, that is, the cities passed through along the way, have been known for some time; less well-documented, however, are the actual routes themselves. By focusing on etymology and name typology, a network of roads can be reconstructed from onomastic data that was present at least in late antique Luxembourg, with possible Gaulish origins. as According to the toponomastic evidence, this network was further maintained or even enhanced during post-Gallo-Roman settlement
The Toponym Macau as a Political Issue: Etymology and Sino-Portuguese Colonial History
No full textThe toponym Macau (a former Portuguese colony in the Chinese Pearl River delta, approx. 60 km west of Hong Kong) has become a frequent topic of etymological debate in the 20th century. Two factors may account for this interest: first, as a multiethnic city, Macau is linguistically diverse, which gives rise to complex scenarios of linguistic contact. Second, the 20th century constitutes a watershed in both Portugal’s and China’s history, the most important change being the end of the colonial era. This change prompted the need to reassess the legal, historical, cultural and linguistic status of Macau’s inhabitants with their diverse ethnic backgrounds. In the 1990s, when Macau’s sovereignty was transferred from Portugal to the People’s Republic of China, many debates about the name of the city occurred in the philological, belletristic and political literature. This article illustrates how debates concerning the Macanese toponym address (latent) longstanding political conflicts between ethnic groups. In addition, an etymology for the Macanese toponym is sugge sted that takes account of the fact that Macau has been a multilingual society for many centuries
Rezension zu Ortsnamen. Jahrespreise 2010, 2011, 2015, 2019 und 2020 der „Henning-Kaufmann-Stiftung“
No full textOrtsnamen. Jahrespreise 2010, 2011, 2015, 2019 und 2020 der „Henning-Kaufmann-Stiftung zur Förderung der deutschen Namenforschung auf sprachwissenschaftlicher Grundlage“. Hrsg. von Kirstin Casemir, Dieter Geuenich und Wolf-Armin Frhr. von Reitzenstein (Deutsche Namenforschung auf sprachgeschichtlicher Grundlage, Band 4) Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag 2021, 196 Seiten. – ISBN: 978-3-487-16025-2, Preis EUR 39,80 (DE
Rezension zu Daniel Kroiß, Humanistennamen
No full textDaniel Kroiß, Humanistennamen. Entstehung, Struktur und Verbreitung latinisierter und gräzisierter Familiennamen (= Lingua academica, Band 6). Berlin und Boston: de Gruyter 2020. – ISBN: 9783110744347, Preis: EUR 99,95 (DE)
Rezension zu Siegfried C. Schoppe, Christian M. Schoppe und Stephan A. Schoppe, Geographische Namen im Hl. Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation
No full textSiegfried C. Schoppe, Christian M. Schoppe und Stephan A. Schoppe: Geographische Namen im Hl. Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation (Philologia: Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse 254), Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač 2021, 624 S. – ISBN 978-3-339-12262-9, Preis: EUR 149,80 (DE).
Rezension zu Die Plattform ortsnamen.ch
No full textDie Plattform ortsnamen.ch – Eine Rezension der Plattform anhand des Zürcher Siedlungsnamenbuches
Rezension zu Julia Moira Radtke, Sich einen Namen machen
No full textJulia Moira Radtke, Sich einen Namen machen. Onymische Formen im Szenegraffiti. Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik (= TBL 568), Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2020, 404 S. – ISBN: 978-3-8233-8330-7 (Print) ISBN: 978-3-8233-9330-6 (eBook), Preis: EUR 88,00 (DE Print), EUR 70,40 (DE eBook)