e-Onomastics on Polish Onomastyka

http://onomastyka.uni.lodz.pl/archives/2187 Thanks a lot to Prof. Artur Gałkowski

Blog onomastyczny e-Onomastics – webmaster Dr. Evgeny Shokhenmayer

25 września 2014

Od ponad roku w sieci internetowej pod adresem http://e-onomastics.blogspot.de można śledzić prężnie działający blog onomastyczny prowadzony przez Dr. Evgeny’ja Shokhenmayera (autora monografii: „Analyse textuelle des noms propres et des unités propriales modifiées: Champs associatifs des noms propres et mécanismes de la compréhension textuelle”,Éditions universitaires européennes 2011)

Link do strony: e-Onomastics – e-Sciences about proper names

Na blogu zamieszczane są na bieżąco informacje z wielu obszarów językowych i tematycznych onomastyki, m.in. pod takimi zakładkami, jak: Home, About me, News, Concepts, Geonomastics, Genomastics, Psychonomastics, Zoonomastics,Names, Heroes of Onomastics, Events, Jobs, Blogs, Articles, Publications, Videos, Websites, Humour, Calendar

Blog zdobywa dobre recenzje i rekomendacje w świecie onomastyki. Jest skarbnicą aktualnej wiedzy onomastycznej w wymiarze globalnym.

Dołączam się do rekomendacji i życzę Autorowi wytrwałości w prowadzeniu tak cennego dla nauk onomastycznych blogu,

Artur Gałkowski

IX Святогорскиe и IX Михайловскиe ономастическиe чтения

ИНФОРМАЦИОННОЕ ПИСЬМО № 1

ГЛУБОКОУВАЖАЕМЫЕ КОЛЛЕГИ!

Приглашаем Вас принять участие в работе IX Святогорских и 
ономастических Чтений и IX Михайловских (Крымских) литературно-
ономастических Чтений, которые пройдут 17-20 октября. Тематика работы
конференций: актуальные проблемы ономастики и поэтонимологии 
(литературной ономастики).

Чтения пройдут в дистанционной форме (режим оффлайн)*.

Материалы Интернет-конференции будут размещены на сайте Фонда
гуманитарных исследований и инициатив «Азбука»: azbuka.in.ua.

По завершении конференции доклады будут опубликованы в одном из
изданий: «Восточноукраинском лингвистическом сборнике», журнале
«Λογος όνομαστική», сборнике «Филологические исследования».

Оргкомитет просит не позднее 10 октября сообщить по электронной
почте ksfksfksf@mail.ru или kalinkin.valeriy@mail.ru тему Вашего доклада,
после чего Вам будет направлено информационное письмо № 2 для
оформления официального участия в работе IX Святогорских или
IX Михайловских (Крымских) ономастических Чтений

Телефоны для справок: +39-062-344-34-30 (фонд гуманитарных исследований
и инициатив «Азбука»),
+38-050-297-42-20 (Калинкин Валерий Михайлович),
+38-099-498-98-27 (Федотова Ксения Сергеевна)

Заранее благодарим!

 Председатель Оргкомитета д.ф.н., проф. Е. С. Отин

 Зам. председателя Оргкомитета д.ф.н., проф. В. М. Калинкин 

*Предусматривается и традиционная (очная) форма работы Чтений в г. Святогорск 
Донецкой области, Украина. Её возможность целиком зависит от военно-политической 
обстановки в регионе.

Mikrotoponimia i makrotoponimia. Problematyka wstępna

http://onomastyka.uni.lodz.pl/archives/2155

Publikacja: „Mikrotoponimia i makrotoponimia. Problematyka wstępna”, red. A. Gałkowski, R. Gliwa, Łódź 2014

18 września 2014

W Wydawnictwie UŁ ukazała się monografia pod red. Artur Gałkowskiego i Renaty Gliwy „Mikrotoponimia i makrotoponimia. Problematyka wstępna”. Jest to pierwsza z trzech planowanych publikacji w cyklu „Nomina loci”, które są pokłosiem XVIII MiOKO (Łódź). Kolejne dwie książki w tym cyklu w przygotowaniu.

Książka jest do nabycia w księgarni WUŁ: Mikrotoponimia i makrotoponimia. Problematyka wstępna
Pod podanym linkiem znajduje się więcej informacji o książce wraz z jej spisem treści w języku polskim i angielskim.

Opis książki dostępny również na stronie: http://www.italianistyka.uni.lodz.pl/zaklad/ksiazki

Książkę będzie można obejrzeć na wystawie publikacji podczas XIX MiOKO w Gnieźnie (20-22.09.2014). Będzie można ją tam również nabyć (proszę się w tej sprawie zwracać bezpośrednio do prof. Artura Gałkowskiego).

What to do when terrorists claim your company's name

What to do when terrorists claim your company's name | Marketplace.org

Emily Rose/Tako Fibers/Flickr

A blank name tag

by Stan Alcorn

Friday, September 5, 2014 - 05:00

What do you do when your brand gets adopted by a terrorist organization? That’s the question faced by businesses with ISIS in their names — the English-language acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. 

The most extreme strategy is to simply change the name. Mobile payment app Isis has announced it will change its name to Softcard. 

But so far, this is the exception. There are 49 corporations in New York State alone with "Isis" in their name, from Isis Fitness to Isis Nails. 

Patricia Luzi is the founder of Isis Essentials, selling organic oils and other products. She’s not afraid of a terrorist homophone.

"Isis is an Egyptian goddess and has been for thousands of years," she says. "I am not affected at all."

According to Steve Manning, founder of naming agency Igor, most Isis-branded businesses have nothing to fear because there is little chance of confusion with a violent sect of Sunni fundamentalists.

"But if your business isn't doing well or if you've got a bad reputation, it's the perfect excuse to make a change," he adds. 

This is what Manning believes was the true motivation of the mobile wallet app that is now called Softcard. 

"The irony being this mobile wallet was a huge initiative that never got any traction," Manning says. "Had it, they wouldn't have changed the name."

It wasn’t so much protecting a successful brand, as abandoning a failed one.

Featured in: Marketplace Morning Report for Friday September 5, 2014

Yosef, Tamar are most popular Israeli baby names

Yosef, Tamar are most popular Israeli baby names of 5774 - National Israel News | Haaretz

Number of Israeli citizens nears 9 million; 176,000 babies are born and almost 25,000 immigrants arrive this Jewish year.

By Ilan Lior | Sep. 21, 2014 

One of the 176,230 babies born in Israel during the 5774 Jewish year. Photo by Gil Cohen-Magen

Number of Israeli citizens, Rosh Hashanah eve, according to Population and Immigration Authority, Sept. 21, 2014.

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The most popular boy's names of the Jewish year 5774, which comes to an end this week, were Yosef, Daniel and Ori, while Tamar, Noa and Shira topped the list of girl's names, the Population and Immigration Authority reported Sunday.

Tamar ended Noa's 14-year run of being the most popular girl's name in the country, while Yosef climbed from fourth place to oust Itai, which in turn fell to fourth.

The official number of Israeli citizens on the eve of the Jewish New Year is 8,904,373, the authority said.

The figure represents growth of 2 percent in the number of citizens compared to a year ago.

The Population and Immigration Authority counts the number of people who hold Israeli citizenship, some of whom do not live in the country.

Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics reported in May that 8.18 million people live in Israel, including Arab residents of East Jerusalem but excluding some 200,000 foreign workers and thousands of asylum seekers who did not enter the country through official border crossings.

The number of babies born in Israel during the past year was 176,230 – 90,646 boys and 85,584 girls. A total of 24,801 people immigrated to Israel during this period.

140,591 Israeli couples registered their marriage in Israel during the 5774 Jewish year, of which 75,848 actually tied the knot during this period. In contrast, the country received 32,457 divorce applications, of which 23,419 went through.

М. И. Знобищева: Что означают наши имена или Занимательная ономастика

Stiefkinder der Onomastik wurden "adoptiert"

http://www.namenforschung.net/aktuell/stiefkinder-der-onomastik-wurden-adoptiert/

Internationale Tagung in Mainz beschäftigte sich mit von der Forschung vernachlässigten Namenarten und gab hier viele neue Impulse

50 WissenschaftlerInnen aus dem In- und Ausland sind vom 15. bis zum 17. September 2014 in den Räumen der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz zusammengekommen, um sich über die sogenannten Stiefkinder der Onomastik auszutauschen. Dabei wurden viele neue Forschungsrichtungen angestoßen, wobei das Spektrum sämtliche großen Namenklassen wie Personen-, Orts-, Objekt- und Ereignisnamen abdeckte und hier von Whiskynamen, Glockennamen und Finanzproduktnamen über Kletterroutennamen, Mühlennamen und Ortsnamen in deutschen Kolonialgebieten bis hin zu Pseudonymen, Volksmusikgruppennamen und Filmtiteln reichte. Am Ende der Tagung konnte  das Organisationsteam um Fabian Fahlbusch, Rita Heuser und Mirjam Schmuck zufrieden feststellen, dass die (ehemaligen) Stiefkinder nun ihren Platz in der Forschung gefunden haben und allesamt "adoptiert" worden sind. Auch das Echo in den Medien war groß.

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• KNA-Meldung vom 14. September 2014 (28 K)

Weiterführende Links

• Bericht in der Allgemeinen Zeitung Mainz vom 18. September 2014
• Meldung im Deutschlandradio vom 15. September 2014
• DPA-Meldung vom 15. September 2014, erschienen in verschiedenen Tageszeitungen
• Weitere Informationen zur Tagung

Developing high-end reusable tools and resources for Irish-language onomastics (toponymy) using modern web and database technologies

From the article... http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/W14-4610.pdf

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Sophie Wauer (6.8.1930 – 20.2.2014)

http://www.onomastikblog.de/wuerdigungen/sophie_wauer_681930_2022014/


in English:

Sophie Wauer was one of the few competent scientists in the field of Slavic-German onomastics. After studying slavistics 1952-1956 at the Humboldt University, she worked until 1990 (with a long break for personal reasons) at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin as a linguist.

She received her PhD in 1963 under the direction of Hans Holm Bielfeldt for the thesis "Place-names of the Schönebeck district". Among many onomastic essays coming from her pen and besides her active participation at the International Congress of Onomastic Studies (ICOS), the great contribution to the Brandenburg book of names is primarily to be mentioned. She has written the books "Place-names of Priegnitz" (1989), "Place-names of Uckermark" (1996) and "Place-names of the district Beeskow-Storkow".  In 1999 Sophie Wauer developed the band "River basin of the Havel (without Spree)" for the significant serie Hydronymia Germaniae. She also assisted in other works, like the lexicon "German place-names book," ed. by Manfred Niemeyer (2012) and the band "Brandenburg on Havel and environment" (2006) within series "Values ​​of the German homeland."

                        

auf Deutsch:

Sophie Wauer gehörte zu den wenigen kompetenten Wissenschaftlern auf dem Gebiet der slawisch-deutschen Namenforschung. Nach dem Studium der Slawistik 1952-1956 an der Humboldt-Universität war sie bis 1990 (mit einer längeren Unterbrechung aus privaten Gründen) an der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin als Sprachwissenschaftlerin tätig.

Sie promovierte 1963 bei Hans Holm Bielfeldt mit der Arbeit "Die Ortsnamen des Kreises Schönebeck". Neben vielen namenkundlichen Aufsätzen aus ihrer Feder und ihrer aktiven Mitwirkung an Internationalen Kongressen zur Namenforschung (ICOS) ist vor allem ihr großer Beitrag zum Brandenburgischen Namenbuch zu nennen. Sie hat die Bände "Die Ortsnamen der Priegnitz" (1989), "Die Ortsnamen der Uckermark" (1996) und "Die Ortsnamen des Kreises Beeskow-Storkow" verfasst. Von dem Band über die Priegnitz erschien auch eine populärwissenschaftliche Fassung. Für die bedeutende Reihe "Hydronymia Germaniae" hat Sophie Wauer den Band "Das Flussgebiet der Havel (ohne die Spree)" (1999) erarbeitet. Gefragt war sie auch als Mitarbeiterin an anderen Werken, z.B. dem Lexikon "Deutsches Ortsnamenbuch", hrsg. von Manfred Niemeyer (2012), und dem Band "Brandenburg an der Havel und Umgebung" (2006) der Reihe "Werte der deutschen Heimat".

Sophie Wauer war seit vielen Jahren Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Namenkunde, ferner der Landesgeschichtlichen Vereinigung für die Mark Brandenburg e.V. und des Uckermärkischen Geschichtsvereins e.V.

Reinhard E. Fischer (Berlin)

Werke Sophie Wauers im Titelnachweis der deutschen Nationalbibliothek

5000th individual citation for Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources

http://dmnes.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/5000th-citation/

The team of DMNES has just completed the final review for the 5000th individual citation to go into the Dictionary (a citation of Theoderici, a Latin genitive of Theodoric — a name which many people might be surprised was as enduringly popular as it was — from a German record from 1214). Here is a nifty little chart that shows the breakdown of citations per country:

Citations per country

And another with citations per language:

Citations per language

The disparities in the first chart reflect the sources from which the editorial team has chosen to work with: the Czech Republic is grossly overrepresented due to the existence of a fascinating collection of Latin charters from the mid 14th C full of names, many of which show strong influence of the vernacular in their spellings. Since transcription from, say, English parish registers can sometimes be a bit boring (yes, Virginia, every fifth man really was named John in 16th C England…), collections of charters like this one that have unusual and sometimes unique names of course are going to receive the benefit of a disproportionately large amount of attention.

Reaching the 5000th citation represents an increase of nearly 29% since they last took stock, just over two weeks ago. Such rapid progress even in the midst of other time-consuming matters is exciting and inspiring, and we look forward to seeing what the coming months will bring!

Photo report from the Conference "The role of onomastics in the study of history and current state of Bulgarian and other Slavic and Balkan languages"

Herewith you'll find some interesting photos taken during the Bulgarian Conference "The role of onomastics in the study of history and current state of Bulgarian and other Slavic and Balkan languages": http://e-onomastics.blogspot.de/2014/06/bulgarian-conference-role-of-onomastics.html

Pictures by courtesy of Yakub Hasan, expert on ethnic and religious activities in the municipality of Omourtag, Bulgaria. 

Opening:

Plenary session

Presentations in thematic sections. First day:

Ballads for onomastics during the evening entertainment:

During the evening entertainment - the discussions in the sections had  continuation:

Presentation in thematic sections. Second day: