none 10.1075/pbns.275.03ald John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 90547637 2350343 1420619 202412101824000036 10.1075 2024-12-10T12:32:10Z 2017-06-01T05:31:30Z 15 0922-842X 10.1075/pbns https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns Terhi Ainiala University of Helsinki Jan-Ola Östman University of Helsinki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2658-9314 The pragmatics of names The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trends within socio-onomastics, interactional onomastics, contact onomastics, folk onomastics, and linguistic landscape studies. The volume is an introduction to these fields – with the introductory chapter giving an overview of, and an update on, recent onomastic study – and in addition offers detailed in-depth analyses of place names, person names, street names and commercial names from different perspectives: historically, as well as from the point of view of the impact of globalization and glocalization. All the chapters focus on the use and function of names and naming, on changes in name usage, and on the reasons for, processes in, and results of names in contact. 275 6 9 2017 6 1 2017 9789027256805 9789027265692 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/pbns.275 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027265692 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/pbns.275/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027265692.pdf Emilia Aldrin Halmstad University 6 9 2017 6 1 2017 45 68 10.1075/pbns.275.03ald https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.275.03ald https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/pbns.275.03ald/html