My Name and Myself: Duet or Solo?
Much work in onomastics tends to be language- or ethnicity-related and subdisciplinarian. In the Western tradition, the creation of a general onomastics, an overarching theory of names and naming, has largely been the province of philosophy, especially logic, with some sporadic additions from lingui...
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| description | Much work in onomastics tends to be language- or ethnicity-related and subdisciplinarian. In the Western tradition, the creation of a general onomastics, an overarching theory of names and naming, has largely been the province of philosophy, especially logic, with some sporadic additions from linguistics. Attempts to predicate such a theory on data from a world-wide range of languages have been conspicuously rare. Mostly, general work on names has been expressed in language-neutral terms, but within the framework of the dominant language of academic discourse; formerly Latin, and more recently often English. The elephant in the room of onomastic theory cannot be dealt with in this way. Humankind is split in its view of the relation between names and their individual (especially human) bearers. Are they more or less arbitrary labels, as the Western tradition broadly agrees (with some discomfort about what “more or less” might entail), or are they integral attributes of their bearers, like the mind or the soul, as other cultures insist? The point of this contribution is to frame the question in the light of current theoretical work, and to explore in what sense, if any, and in what way, it might be “answered” rather than dismissed. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1599582025-05-20T06:37:41Z My Name and Myself: Duet or Solo? Coates, Richard name theory personal name name and bearer label attribute mysticism thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics Much work in onomastics tends to be language- or ethnicity-related and subdisciplinarian. In the Western tradition, the creation of a general onomastics, an overarching theory of names and naming, has largely been the province of philosophy, especially logic, with some sporadic additions from linguistics. Attempts to predicate such a theory on data from a world-wide range of languages have been conspicuously rare. Mostly, general work on names has been expressed in language-neutral terms, but within the framework of the dominant language of academic discourse; formerly Latin, and more recently often English. The elephant in the room of onomastic theory cannot be dealt with in this way. Humankind is split in its view of the relation between names and their individual (especially human) bearers. Are they more or less arbitrary labels, as the Western tradition broadly agrees (with some discomfort about what “more or less” might entail), or are they integral attributes of their bearers, like the mind or the soul, as other cultures insist? The point of this contribution is to frame the question in the light of current theoretical work, and to explore in what sense, if any, and in what way, it might be “answered” rather than dismissed. Published 2025-05-20T06:37:39Z 2025-05-20T06:37:39Z 2023-12-18 chapter 9788323374787 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159958 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://wuj.pl/en/book/onomastics-in-interaction-with-other-branches-of-science-volume-3 https://wuj.pl/my-name-and-myself-duet-or-solo Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Onomastics in Interaction With Other Branches of Science. Volume 3. General and Applied Onomastics. Literary Onomastics. Chrematonomastics. Reports 10.4467/K7478.47/22.23.17725 10.4467/K7478.47/22.23.17725 b56389e6-bd6e-43b9-abc7-9af91c5afc6b c399a3f7-2b80-46ec-b511-77038f45ea82 9788323374787 21-34 open access |
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