3rd workshop "New Trends in Nordic Socio-onomastics"

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New methodological tools relevant for historical onomastic studies – Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2019


The 3rd workshop "New Trends in Nordic Socio-onomastics" is running in Copenhagen from 2nd to 4th October 2019. It's dedicated to name-related methods relevant to historical studies used in other research disciplines.


In the third workshop, the focus is on methods for socio-onomastic research on historical name material. Danish guest speakers with expertise in digitation of big historical name data, qualitative research in social relations, and in what old place-names can tell about the relation between humans and places, are invited. As in the other workshops, practical exercises are carried out with concrete materials. The methods discussed include considerations on lemmatisation of different spellings, the fact that informants and the recording person are not always known, as well as relevant theories and methods discussed in the two previous workshops, especially the considerations on the quantitative methods regarding digital data, crowd sourcing, statistical correlation, and regression analysis. It is an important issue on this workshop to discuss which theories and methods that can be used to get results that research in contemporary name material can relate to.