Surnames, Nicknames, Placenames and Epithets in America: Essays in the Theory of Names - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773408703 ISBN 13: 9780773408708

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

This is a collection of essays selected with the purpose of presenting a picture of the concerns and state of onomastics in America in the closing decades of the 20th Century. Onomastics is the serious study of names and naming. Names are used in all cultures to designate particular persons, places, events, and ideas. This study helps show both universal aspects of human culture and differences between cultures over time and space. The study of names as used in America is relevant for investigating universal patterns and tendencies, as most places in America were named more recently than the older, earlier-settled parts of the world.

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Review

"... [this book] presents a challenge to readers, scholars, and researchers in a variety of fields to recognize the importance of names in their disciplines and to further elaborate what has become a truism, that onomastics can broaden and deepen our understanding of the human condition." - Professor Cleveland Kent Evans, Bellevue University Edwin D. Lawson, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Fredonia"

About the Author

Edward Callary is an associate professor of English at Northern Illinois University and the editor of Surnames, Nicknames, Placenames and Epithets in America: Essays in the Theory of Names.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773408703
• ISBN 13: 9780773408708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Callary Edward