Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa

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Special issue of the International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 (2023)

Editors

Nico Nassenstein | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Sambulo Ndlovu | University of Eswatini

Svenja Völkel | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

[International Journal of Language and Culture, 10:2]  Expected May 2024.  ca. 150 pp.

Publishing status: In production

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

INTRODUCTION
• Naming and labelling contexts of cultural importance in Africa: An introduction
  Svenja Völkel, Sambulo Ndlovu & Nico Nassenstein | pp. 145–150
ARTICLES
• Named entities, naming practices, and their meanings – linguistic types and cultural contexts
  Svenja Völkel | pp. 151–174
• (Un)packaging the “sweetness” in the naming of farms by resettled Black sugarcane farmers in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe: A study of selected names
  Wellington Wasosa & Mickson Mazuruse | pp. 175–189
• The dialectics of sport and history: Commemorative naming of selected stadia in the Kingdom of Eswatini
  Godwin Makaudze & Vusi Musa Magongo | pp. 190–208
• The toponym Bulawayo and ideologies of Ndebele language purism in Zimbabwe
  Sambulo Ndlovu | pp. 209–223
• The brand names of craft gins in South Africa : An onomastic analysis
  Bertie Neethling | pp. 224–239
• A chameleonic evolution of a people’s wishes, identity, and aspirations: An onomastic reading of Highlanders FC names and nicknames
  Liketso Dube | pp. 240–254
• Performances of transparency
  Anne Storch | pp. 255–268
• Mobile philosophies: A case of inscriptions on public transport vehicles (kombis) used as entrepreneurial names in Harare, Zimbabwe
  Emmanuel Chabata, Zvinashe Mamvura & Pedzisai Mashiri | pp. 269–287
• “Venezuela hawaii, chelsea!”: Creative onomastic practice and playful (re)labelling in Langila from the Congo
  Nico Nassenstein | pp. 288–305