Basics
Title: The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming
Subtitle: -
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