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La satire politique post-communiste illustrée par les sobriquets des politiciens roumains
(York University, 2009)Les Roumains ont une inclination naturelle vers l’humour et ils ont appris à l’utiliser sans pitié, même (ou, mieux dit, notamment) contre les fameux individus de la classe politique après 1989 (l’année de la Révolution). ... -
The German Surname Atlas Project – Computer-Based Surname Geography
(York University, 2009)The <German Surname Atlas> (<Deutscher Familiennamenatlas>, DFA) project is presented below. The surname maps are based on German fixed network telephone lines (in 2005) with German postal districts as graticules. In our ... -
Place Names in the Construction of Social Identities: The Uses of Names of Helsinki
(York University, 2009)Toponyms are used not only to identify places, but also to accomplish many relevant social and interactional tasks. In a conversation speakers may use diverse forms of a toponym or different names to refer to the same ... -
Change of Cultural and Natural Names in Pöide Parish (Saarema, Estonia)
(York University, 2009)Place names can be classified into cultural and natural names. This classification is expedient, because the names change differently as do their referents. The present article is focused on the evolution of the place names ... -
Un document inédit sur l’anthroponymie des Marches en 1312
(York University, 2009)Dans une source historique de type fiscal inédite, écrite en 1312 à Cagli, petite ville italienne de la région des Marches située sur l’antique Via Flaminia, il y a les noms de tous les chefs de famille du territoire communal. ... -
Contacts médiatiques et migrations onomastiques à Catane
(York University, 2009)Dans la communication de type traditionnel, les échanges linguistiques et culturels s’effectuent habituellement par le contact et la cohabitation entre les populations. Or, dans la communication contemporaine, la rencontre ... -
Naming of Minivan Taxis Used for Public Transportation in the Caribbean
(York University, 2009)Private minivans have come to be used to augment the public bus transportation system on larger islands or else to provide the only regular transportation on smaller islands. This minivan system has been exported by ... -
Name Change as a Consequence of Monastic Ownership
(York University, 2009)The normal assumption is that old Swedish habitation names are original, and the first recorded for a farm or hamlet. There are however other examples – even medieval. The most common reason for a name change was when a ... -
Not an Empty Wasteland: Place Names in Canada’s North
(York University, 2009)Compared to many places in the world where indigenous people struggle to have their voices heard, Inuit in the Canadian Arctic are in an enviable position. Nunavut occupies 1/5 th of Canada’s land mass, a vast majority ... -
Slang Toponyms in Early Twentieth Century Helsinki
(York University, 2009)In this article, we analyse spatial slang coinages by boys and young men from Sörnäinen, a bilingual working-class neighbourhood in early twentieth century Helsinki (1900–1939). During this period, Helsinki slang developed ... -
WULEVÙ würstel? Eine Darstellung produktgruppenspezifischer Aspekte italienischer Markennamen des Lebensmittelmarktes
(York University, 2009)Für die linguistische Forschung gelten Markennamen aufgrund ihres ausgeprägten Praxisbezugs und der Vielfalt des verwendeten sprachlichen Materials als wesentliche Bereicherung. Unter allen Namenarten stellen Bezeichnungen ... -
Atlasregister: Struktur, Systematik und Namensammlung (am Beispiel des Nationalatlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
(York University, 2009)In diesem Beitrag wird versucht, einige semiotische Besonderheiten des Registersbandes des <Nationalatlas Deutschland> (NAD) zu zeigen. Dabei werden Inhaltsverzeichnis bezogene Informationen sowie informations-semiotische ... -
‘Find the lady’: The Term 'lady' in English and Scottish Place-Names
(York University, 2009)The term 'lady' serves as the qualifying element of a number of place-names in the British Isles, and has a range of applications. This paper presents a corpus of such names from north-west England and south-east Scotland, ... -
Do Qumran Inscriptions Show Hellenization of Qumran Residents?
(York University, 2009)The epigraphic corpus of Qumran has been known completely since the publication of André Lemaire in <Khirbet Qumrân et ‘Aïn Feshkha, II>, by Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jan Gunneweg in 2003. The publication of all the ... -
Basque Traces in the Toponymy of Newfoundland and Various Coasts of Atlantic Canada
(York University, 2009)Whereas the first and undoubtedly most important toponymic stratum of the island of Newfoundland and adjacent waters is Portuguese, the presence of Basques from the 1530s to the late 17th century on the South and West ... -
"Landskrona", "Sibirien" and "Jeriko": Borrowed Place Names in Sweden down the Ages
(York University, 2009)Since the Middle Ages, a succession of names has been added to the place nomenclature of Sweden that have been borrowed, ready-made, from other countries. In many cases, these names have the form native to Swedish, e.g., ... -
Noms de famille composés ou composites? L’exemple de la Lorraine romane
(York University, 2009)Dans son <Traité d’anthroponymie française>, Albert Dauzat consacre quelques dizaines de lignes aux noms de famille composés. Or, la confrontation de cette description avec une sélection de surnoms et de noms de famille ... -
Toponymie et contrepoids aux effets du paysage linguistique en situation de contact des langues
(York University, 2009)Affichée, la toponymie appartient à ce que Bourhis et Landry (1997) nomment le « paysage linguistique ». En situation de contact des langues, le paysage linguistique joue un rôle symbolique chez les groupes occupant un ... -
Patterns in the Names of Māori Representative Sportsmen in New Zealand, 1884–2007
(York University, 2009)Since the late nineteenth century, just over 2,200 men have represented New Zealand in rugby union, rugby league and cricket. Of these men 310 are known to have Māori ancestry. In this paper six questions are asked of ... -
Essai d’onomastique sandienne
(York University, 2009)De très nombreux aspects de l’oeuvre de George Sand ont déjà été étudiés. Mais de manière surprenante, l’onomastique chez George Sand n’a guère préoccupé, ni intéressé les chercheurs. Seul le choix de son pseudonyme a ...