Names and naming : people, places, perceptions and power /: people, places, perceptions and power. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Guy Puzey and Laura Kostanski.
• Editors: Puzey, Guy; Kostanski, Laura
• Contents: Contributors Acknowledgements Laura Kostanski and Guy Puzey: Trends in Onomastics: An Introduction Part 1: The Varied Identities of People and Places 1. Katarzyna Aleksiejuk: Internet Personal Naming Practices and Trends in Scholarly Approaches 2. Ian D. Clark: Visitor Experiences of Aboriginal Place Names in Colonial Victoria, Australia, 1834–1900 3. Michael Walsh: Introduced Personal Names for Australian Aborigines: Adaptations to an Exotic Anthroponymy 4. Ellen S. Bramwell: Personal Naming and Community Practices in the Western Isles of Scotland: Putting Names ‘in the Gaelic Sense’ 5. Peter Mühlhäusler and Joshua Nash: Signs of/on Power, Power on/of Signs: Language-Based Tourism, Linguistic Landscapes, and Onomastics on Norfolk Island Part 2: Attitudes and Attachment 6. Laura Kostanski: The Controversy of Restoring Indigenous Names: Lessons Learnt and Strategies for Success 7. Terhi Ainiala: Attitudes towards Street Names in Helsinki 8. Maimu Berezkina: Linguistic Landscape and the Inhabitants’ Attitudes towards Place Names in Multicultural Oslo 9. Maggie Scott: Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon 10. Erzsébet Győrffy: Slang Toponyms in Hungary: A Survey of Attitudes among Language Users Part 3: Power, Resistance and Control 11. Guy Puzey: Renaming as Counter-Hegemony: The Cases of Noreg and Padania 12. Staffan Nyström: Naming Parks, Foot-Paths and Small Bridges in a Multicultural Suburban Area 13. Justyna B. Walkowiak: Personal Names in Language Policy and Planning: Who Plans What Names for Whom and How? 14. Aud-Kirsti Pedersen: Is the Official Use of Names in Norway Determined by the Place-Names Act or Attitudes? 15. Kaisa Rautio Helander: The Power of Administration in the Official Recognition of Indigenous Place Names in the Nordic Countries Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 929.97; Onomastics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783094936; 9781783094929; 9781783094943
• Related ISBNs: 9781783094912; 9781783094905
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