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Series in Language and Linguistics
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Series in language and linguistics.
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God's divine names in the Qur'aan: al-asmaa' el-husna / Wafa Abu Hatab -- Planning the name of God and the Devil. A short route, between the sacred and the profane, in linguistic creativity. Looking for some constant logical primary pattern / Davide Astori -- Names of gods and goddesses in old Romanian culture / Gheorghe Chivu -- Theoretical outlook on the sacred and the profane in first names / Daiana Felecan -- The name giver / Alexandra Gafton, Adina Chirilă -- Names of sects: between the unusual and manipulation / Artur Galkowski -- Onomastic configurations within Japanese Shintoism / Leo Loveday -- The deity concept among the amaXhosa of South Africa / Bertie Neethling -- Some considerations on Jewish names of monotheism's only deity / Ephraim Nissan -- Prayers in place names / Vladislav Alpatov -- Transylvanian oikonyms between sacred and profane. Etymological hypotheses and onomasiological framework / Nicolae Felecan -- Transylvanian oikonyms and hodonyms: between sacred and profane / Oliviu Felecan -- Ethnophaulic toponyms in the United States / Frank Nuessel -- Restoration of urbanonyms with sacred allusions in the system of urban object names in the Russian language of the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century / Roman Razumov, Sergey Goryaev -- The "profane" and the "sacred" in the major toponymy of the Ehro River Basin (Spain) / Joan Tort-Donada -- Sacred and profane in toponyms : settlement names formed from patrociny and personal names in Hungarian / Valéria Tóth -- Secularization of sacred anthroponyms in modem Ndebele and Shona communities / Sambulo Ndlovu, Tendai Mangena -- Theonymy in anthroponymy: a socio-pragmatic study of selected Yoruba African religious names / Idowu Odebode -- Connections of the sacred and profane in the history of Hungarian given names / Mariann Slíz, Tamás Farkas -- Naming and renaming as sociocultural signification in Bukusu and Shona cultures / Solomon Waliaula, Tendai Mangena -- Sacred aspects of names in the context of place branding / Angelika Bergien -- The influence of the Kalevala on Finnish commercial naming / Paula Sjöblom -- Names of natural pharmaceutical products / Mihaela Munteanu Siserman -- Semantics of names of tarot cards between sacred and profane / Alina Bugheşiu -- Onomastic wordplay in Roman-age to medieval rabbinic biblical exegesis, and beyond / Ephraim Nissan -- Profane in literary anthroponomastics (based on S. Townsend's Adrian Mole diary series) / Anna Tsepkova. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Religiously, God is the creator of everything seen and unseen; thus, one can ascribe to Him the names of His creation as well, at least in their primordial form. In the mentality of ancient Semitic peoples, naming a place or a person meant determining the role or fate of the named entity, as names were considered to be mysteriously connected with the reality they designated. Subsequently, God gave people the freedom to name persons, objects, and places. However, people carried out this act (precisely) in relation to the divinity, either by remaining devoted to the sacred or by growing estranged from it, an attitude that generated profane names. The sacred/profane dichotomy occurs in all the branches of onomastics, such as anthroponymy, toponymy, and ergonymy. It is circumscribed to complex and interdisciplinary analysis which does not rely on language sciences exclusively, but also on theology, ethnology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, geography, history and other connected fields, as well as culture in general. Despite the contributors' cultural diversity (29 researchers from 16 countries - England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, U.S.A., and Zimbabwe - on four continents) and their adherence to different religions and faiths, the studies in Onomastics between Sacred and Profane share a common goal that consist of the analysis of names that reveal a person's identity and behavior, or the existence, configuration and symbolic nature of a place or an object. One can state that names are tightly connected to the surrounding reality, be it profane or religious, in every geographical area and every historical period, and this phenomenon can still be observed today. The particularity of this book lies in the multicultural and multidisciplinary approach in theory and praxis. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Onomastics.
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Onomastics. |
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Names -- Religious aspects.
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Names. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Felecan, Oliviu, editor.
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Print version: Onomastics between sacred and profane. Wilmington, Delaware, United States : Vernon Press, [2019] 1622734017 9781622734016 (OCoLC)1052080490 |
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9781622735570 (electronic book) |
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1622735579 (electronic book) |
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1622734017 |
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9781622734016 |
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