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Ti år med den norske navneloven
No full textThe current Personal Names Act of Norway has been in force since 2003. Inspired by a liberalised cultural ideology, it sought to simplify decision making and to take greater account of the name cultures of immigrant communities and of changing ways of living together (e.g. as unmarried cohabitants). The changes brought more freedom to choose given names from abroad, as well as names that might look strange. Individuals were thus given greater personal responsibility for their own names, and government restrictions on what names could be chosen were relaxed. Examples of names made possible by the new provisions are Tog (‘train’), Gudergod (‘God is good’), and Kolaautomat (‘Coke machine’, i.e. a vending machine selling Coca-Cola). Rules on the use of surnames from one’s own family and from other families became less restrictive. Before 2003, only surnames with 500 bearers or more could be freely chosen; the new law reduced this limit to 201 or more. Surnames could now also be taken from great-grandparents, the former limit within a family having been the grandparents’ surnames before marriage. Patronymics and metronymics were reintroduced as surnames, with a free choice of endings used for this purpose in other cultures. Hyphenated double surnames, which had been forbidden since 1923, were now allowed, primarily to ensure equal treatment of a wife’s and a husband’s family traditions. The naming practices of immigrant cultures were also incorporated in many ways in the new law. An important example of this is the use of the father’s or mother’s first name as a surname for children, based on Muslim tradition. In addition, the possibility of gender- specific endings to surnames was introduced, an east European tradition. Surnames with old-fashioned Norwegian or Danish spellings may now be modernised. The special Norwegian (and Scandinavian) letters æ, ø and å may be replaced with the international spellings ae/a, oe/o and aa/a. The article examines how the new provisions have been applied, and the assessments behind the decisions reached. Since the law was changed, the author has been consulted extensively by Norway’s population register authorities. The present account is based mainly on questions arising from these consultations, and also from the drafting of the law
Ten years With the Norwegian Personal Names Act
No full textThe current Personal Names Act of Norway has been in force since 2003. Inspired by a liberalised cultural ideology, it sought to simplify decision making and to take greater account of the name cultures of immigrant communities and of changing ways of living together (e.g. as unmarried cohabitants). The changes brought more freedom to choose given names from abroad, as well as names that might look strange. Individuals were thus given greater personal responsibility for their own names, and government restrictions on what names could be chosen were relaxed. Examples of names made possible by the new provisions are Tog (‘train’), Gudergod (‘God is good’), and Kolaautomat (‘Coke machine’, i.e. a vending machine selling Coca-Cola). Rules on the use of surnames from one’s own family and from other families became less restrictive. Before 2003, only surnames with 500 bearers or more could be freely chosen; the new law reduced this limit to 201 or more. Surnames could now also be taken from great-grandparents, the former limit within a family having been the grandparents’ surnames before marriage. Patronymics and metronymics were reintroduced as surnames, with a free choice of endings used for this purpose in other cultures. Hyphenated double surnames, which had been forbidden since 1923, were now allowed, primarily to ensure equal treatment of a wife’s and a husband’s family traditions. The naming practices of immigrant cultures were also incorporated in many ways in the new law. An important example of this is the use of the father’s or mother’s first name as a surname for children, based on Muslim tradition. In addition, the possibility of gender- specific endings to surnames was introduced, an east European tradition. Surnames with old-fashioned Norwegian or Danish spellings may now be modernised. The special Norwegian (and Scandinavian) letters æ, ø and å may be replaced with the international spellings ae/a, oe/o and aa/a. The article examines how the new provisions have been applied, and the assessments behind the decisions reached. Since the law was changed, the author has been consulted extensively by Norway’s population register authorities. The present account is based mainly on questions arising from these consultations, and also from the drafting of the law.publishedVersio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Terminologi, arbeidsinstrukser og lagerstyring – om kodeuttrykk i fagspråk (Terminology, work instructions and inventory control – on coded expressions in jargon)
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No full textMellomnavn i Norge og Danmark, oppfølging av artikkel i NN 35 (2018)
Get PDFThe article «Mellemnavnet i Danmark og Norge» (‘The middlename in Denmark and Norway’) by Lars-Jakob Harding Kællerødin Namn og Nemne vol. 35 contains incorrect information aboutmiddle names in the Norwegian Acts of Personal Names. Kællerødwrites that middle names were not regulated in the Act of PersonalNames of 1923, that they were first regulated in the 1964 Act, andthat middle names are personal in the 2002 Act, meaning that mid-dle names cannot be transferred from former generations in thefamily or be transferred to children and spouses. The Norwegianrules are in many ways the opposite of what Kællerød writes. TheAct of Personal Names of 1923 had strict regulations for the useof middle names, and the usage was liberalized by the 1964 Act.By the 2002 Act, middle names can be transferred quite freelywithin the family. In the 2002 Act, only primary patronymics andmetronymics are personal according to the main rules and cannotbe transferred to other persons. The present article lays out therules for middle names in Norway in the 20th and 21th century,with brief outlooks on the rules for middle names in Denmark, andreviews Kællerød’s account in this contextpublishedVersio
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