Book: The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming

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Title: The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming

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Author: edited by Carole Hough with assistance from Daria Izdebska
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 771
ISBN: 978-0-19-881553-2
Nordic Names shortcut: OXH

Index of Contents

• Preface
• List of Figures
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• 1. Introduction (Carole Hough)

PART I ONOMASTIC THEORY

• 2. Names and Grammar (Willy van Langendonck and Mark van de Velde)
• 3. Names and Meaning (Staffan Nyström)
• 4. Names and Discourse (Elwys de Stefani)

PART II TOPONOMASTICS

• 5. Methodologies in Place-name Research (Simon Taylor)
• 6. Settlement Names (Carole Hough)
• 7. River Names (Svante Strandberg)
• 8. Hill and Mountain Names (Peter Drummond)
• 9. Island Names (Peder Gammeltoft)
• 10. Rural Names (Julia Kuhn)
• 11. Street Names: A Changing Urban Landscape (Bertie Neethling)
• 12. Transferred Names and Analogy in Name-formation (Stefan Brink)

PART III ANTHROPONOMASTICS

• 13. Personal Naming Systems (Edwin D. Lawson)
• 14. Given Names in European Naming Systems (Katharina Leibring)
• 15. Family Names (Patrick Hanks and Harry Parkin)
• 16. Bynames and Nicknames (Eva Brylla †)
• 17. Ethnonyms (Adrian Koopman)
• 18. Personal Names and Anthropology (Ellen S. Bramwell)
• 19. Personal Names and Genealogy (George Redmonds)

PART IV LITERARY ONOMASTICS

• 20. Theoretical Foundations of Literary Onomastics (Grant W. Smith)
• 21. Names in Songs: A Comparative Analysis of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire and Christopher Torr's Hot Gates (Bertie Neethling)
• 22. Genre-based Approaches to Names in Literature (Birgit Falck-Kjällquist)
• 23. Corpus-based Approaches to Names in Literature (Karina van Dalen-Oskam)
• 24. Language-based Approaches to Names in Literature (Paul Cavill)

PART V SOCIO-ONOMASTICS

• 25. Names in Society (Terhi Ainiala)
• 26. Names and Identity (Emilia Aldrin)
• 27. Linguistic Landscapes (Guy Puzey)
• 28. Toponymic Attachment (Laura Kostanski)
• 29. Forms of Address (Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker)
• 30. Pseudonyms (Katarzyna Aleksiejuk)
• 31. Commercial Names (Paula Sjöblom)

PART VI ONOMASTICS AND OTHER DISCIPLINES

• 32. Names and Archaeology (Richard Jones)
• 33. Names and Cognitive Psychology (Serge Brédart)
• 34. Names and Dialectology (Margaret Scott)
• 35. Names and Geography (Peder Gammeltoft)
• 36. Names and History (Gillian Fellows-Jensen)
• 37. Names and Historical Linguistics (Richard Coates)
• 38. Names and Language Contact (Berit Sandnes)
• 39. Names and Law (Andreas Teutsch)
• 40. Names and Lexicography (Alison Grant)
• 41. Place-names and Religion: A Study of Early Christian Ireland (Kay Muhr)

PART VII OTHER TYPES OF NAMES

• 42. Aircraft Names (Guy Puzey)
• 43. Animal Names (Katharina Leibring)
• 44. Astronomical Names (Marc Alexander)
• 45. Names of Dwellings (Adrian Koopman)
• 46. Railway Locomotive Names and Train Names (Richard Coates)
• 47. Ship Names (Malcolm Jones)

• Bibliography
• Subject Index
• Index of Languages