scholarly journals Personal Names and Identity in Literary Contexts

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedicta Windt-Val
Keyword(s):  
Close Connection ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Source Of Information

This article is an attempt to show the close connection between a person's given name and their feeling of identity and self. This connection is very important - it has even been stated that the parents' choice of name for their child will have an influence on the development of the personality of the child. Moreover, personal names and place names are some of the most important tools of the author in the creation of credible characters placed in a literary universe that gives the impression of being authentic. Many authors from different countries have related their view of the significance of names and naming, not only as a source of information for the reader, but also as an important part of making the characters real to the authors themselves during the process of writing.

Recent Research on Personal Names and Place-Names in Runic Inscriptions

Onoma ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Patrik LARSSON
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Runic Inscriptions

Die „deutsche Spur“ in der altrussischen Erzählung über die Einnahme Konstantinopels durch die Kreuzritter

2016 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Maiorov ◽  
Evgenij N. Metelkin
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
The Future ◽  
Close Relationship

AbstractOld Rus’ literature and art reflected the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders, in particular, in the Tale on the taking of Tsargrad by the Crusaders.The most likely author of this work, the oldest version of which has survived as part of the Older Version of the First Novgorod Chronicle, is the Novgorod Boyar Dobrynya Yadreykovich (later Archbishop Anthony). A close associate of the Galician-Volhynian prince RomanMstislavich, Dobrynya spent several years in Constantinople on his behalf and witnessed the devastation of the Byzantine capital by the Latins in April 1204. The close relationship with the Galician-Volhynian prince explains why Dobrynya paid attention to the prince’s brother-in-law - the German king Philip of Swabia - and his role in organizing the Fourth Crusade.The author of the Tale expressed the „Ibellin“ point of view, i.e. he attempted to take off the German king the responsibility for the devastation of Constantinople. He was familiar with the details of the escape of Prince Alexios (the future emperor Alexios IV) from the Byzantine capital to King Philip and used characteristic German vocabulary (place names and personal names). All this suggests that the Russian scribe used informations from a well-informed German source. Dobrynya’s informer could be one of King Philip’s supporters, Bishop of Halberstadt Konrad von Krosigk, who participated in the siege of Constantinople in 1203-1204.

scholarly journals Metaforikus névadás

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Katalin Reszegi
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Psychological Reality ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
The Creation

The paper discusses the cognitive mechanics of metaphorical name-giving with a focus on place names, following an overview of cognitive metaphor theory and the questions of metaphorically used proper nouns. In cognitive linguistics, the use of metaphors is a cognitive mechanism that plays a fundamental role in human thought and understanding, and the creation of our social, cultural and psychological reality. A particular form of this also manifests in name-giving, creating a small but influential category of names. The category of place names also influences the application of this name-giving method: it is generally used in more informal names and name types. The creation of such a name requires the speaker to detach themselves from the conventional norms of direct descriptionand metonymic name-giving, and relies on their lingual creativity and ability to detach themselves from dominant name-giving models. However, names in the category can also be divided into subcategories. Beyond the typical common-noun-based metaphorical name-giving, more complex parallels can also be found, resulting in the associations connecting the names of several nearby locations. Place names can also serve as the base of metaphorical name-giving, supporting the complex meaning of these names. Despite the fact that the majority of metaphorical names are available from contemporary data collection, it is obviously a long-standing and ancient method of name-giving, as it is based on a cognitive mechanics that seem to be as old as humanity itself.

scholarly journals 9. An Analysis of the Vocal Ensembles from the Opera “I Puritani” by Vincenzo Bellini

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
Cristina Simionescu
Keyword(s):  
Close Connection ◽  
Bel Canto ◽  
Vincenzo Bellini ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
The Creation

Abstract I Puritani is the masterpiece that crowned the creation of the Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, being remarked and appreciated for the richness of his melodicity and profound symbols filled with the inspiration and creativity of a creator. This was the last of the ten works composed by Bellini, whose disappearance was premature, at only 33 years, but the passion and talent with which he created revealed a work dominated by essence and emotion, which establishes a close connection between chant and the poetic text, providing new expressive valences to the lyrical universe. The extremely difficult and demanding vocal writing raises serious challanges, the Bel-canto style meaning not only a “beautiful chant” but also a difficult texture, a certain specific phrasing and a spread of spectacular acute tones.

scholarly journals “Enwau Prydeinig gwyn?” Problematizing the idea of “White British” names and naming practices from a Welsh perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-259
Author(s):  
Sara Louise Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Naming Practices

Our personal names are a potential source of information to those around us regarding several interconnected aspects of our lives, including our: ethnic, geographic, linguistic and cultural community of origin, and perhaps our national identity. However, interpretations regarding identifiably “White British” names and naming practices are problematic, due to the incorrect underlying assumption of a homogeneity in the indigenous communities of ‘Britain.’ The field of names and naming is a particularly good example of the wide linguistic and cultural chasm between the Welsh and English indigenous ‘British’ communities, and thus the generally paradoxical concept of “Britishness” in its wider sense. In this paper, I will explore names and naming practices which are particularly distinctive to a Welsh context, thus unearthing and opening up for wider debate the hidden diversity within the assumed and imposed category of “White British privilege.”

ECOLOGICAL TOURISM AND RECREATIONAL GEOGRAPHY

InterConf ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Ayan Mirzayeva
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ecological Tourism

Ecological tourism is a direction in the tourism industry, which is primarily interested in preserving nature and its surroundings: monuments, plants, animals. An integral part of ecotourism development is the promotion of the utilization, conservation of water and energy and the creation of economic opportunities for local communities. Tourism is in close connection with a new branch of geography - recreational geography, which studies natural-geographical, cultural-historical and other conditions conducive to the development of tourism.

The parts of Hispania without epigraphy

2019 ◽  
pp. 335-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Gorrochategui ◽  
J. M. Vallejo
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Latin Epigraphy

This chapter describes the linguistic situation in those parts of the Iberian peninsula where there are no or very few inscriptions written in the indigenous languages. Our knowledge is based on the onomastic evidence (place names, deity names, and personal names) that has come down to us, mainly through the Latin epigraphy of late republican and imperial times. The characteristics of each category of names are discussed, pointing out their potential strengths and limitations as a source for knowledge of the linguistic situation, as well as the coincidences and differences that they sometimes reflect, in order to define onomastic areas. Finally, the different linguistic regions that can be observed in the peninsula are presented by means of analysing the geographical distribution, linguistic attribution, and other characteristics of the indigenous onomastic evidence.

The linguistic situation in the territory of Andalusia

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. de Hoz
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Probable Role ◽  
Cultural Role

In antiquity present-day Andalusia was occupied by several different peoples, among whom the main cultural role was taken by the Tartessians, subsequently the Turdetani. The first part of this chapter aims to define the limits and variety of the different ethnic groups. Thereafter, the material available to study the languages of the region is analysed: inscriptions, place names, and personal names. This material is limited and poses numerous problems, but it enables us to define linguistic zones, to emphasize the plurilingual nature of the area, to detect the probable role of Phoenician as a lingua franca, and to draw attention to certain features of Turdetanian, the most widely spoken of the vernacular languages of the region.

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