LINGUIS 155AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anthroponymy, Nicolas Cage, Vladimir Lenin
12 Jan 2017
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Huckleberry fine - po" little chap doan" the french i be ding-busted! . Huck language written standard, while jim"s was exotization (transgr---) Boyz n the hood - (z) purposely nonstandard. Anthroponymy (also anthroponomastics) - human (baby) naming practices. These greatly vary with respect to how constrained the choice baby name is: Prohibitory: eastern european (ashkenazic) jewish necronymy (naming after the living prohibited). Mandatory: sephardic (med jewish) first son named after paternal grandfather, second after maternal grandfather (comparable rule for daughter and grandmothers). Ex: bjork gudmundsdottir (b gud daughter) her father is gudmun. Given names must be approved by the icelandic naming. Icelandic phone books, i"m told, are alphabetized by given name. Vladimir ilich lenin - vladimir son of ilya lenin. Folk theory of naming prevailed in hometown (small town missouri, mid 20th century): Children named from small collection of familiar names. Growing up with unusual or odd name will make the child maladjusted. Ex: tayshaun deron, chaunte, lashawn, trevell(olympic roster)
