Names and Naming

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Laura Kostanski and Guy Puzey: Trends in Onomastics: An Introduction

Part 1: The Varied Identities of People and Places

1. Katarzyna Aleksiejuk: Internet Personal Naming Practices and Trends in Scholarly Approaches

2. Ian D. Clark: Visitor Experiences of Aboriginal Place Names in Colonial Victoria, Australia, 1834-1900

3. Michael Walsh: Introduced Personal Names for Australian Aborigines: Adaptations to an Exotic Anthroponymy

4. Ellen S. Bramwell: Personal Naming and Community Practices in the Western Isles of Scotland: Putting Names 'in the Gaelic Sense'

5. Peter Muhlhausler and Joshua Nash: Signs of/on Power, Power on/of Signs: Language-Based Tourism, Linguistic Landscapes, and Onomastics on Norfolk Island

Part 2: Attitudes and Attachment

6. Laura Kostanski: The Controversy of Restoring Indigenous Names: Lessons Learnt and Strategies for Success

7. Terhi Ainiala: Attitudes towards Street Names in Helsinki

8. Maimu Berezkina: Linguistic Landscape and the Inhabitants' Attitudes towards Place Names in Multicultural Oslo

9. Maggie Scott: Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon

10. Erzsebet Gy?rffy: Slang Toponyms in Hungary: A Survey of Attitudes among Language Users

Part 3: Power, Resistance and Control

11. Guy Puzey: Renaming as Counter-Hegemony: The Cases of Noreg and Padania

12. Staffan Nystrom: Naming Parks, Foot-Paths and Small Bridges in a Multicultural Suburban Area

13. Justyna B. Walkowiak: Personal Names in Language Policy and Planning: Who Plans What Names for Whom and How?

14. Aud-Kirsti Pedersen: Is the Official Use of Names in Norway Determined by the Place-Names Act or Attitudes?

15. Kaisa Rautio Helander: The Power of Administration in the Official Recognition of Indigenous Place Names in the Nordic Countries             

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