Onomástica desde América Latina – Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025)

The latest issue of Onomástica desde América Latina - volume 6, number 1 (2025) - is now published! This Open Access, peer-reviewed journal continues its mission to promote naming research across Latin America and beyond, featuring high-quality scholarship in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French.

What’s Inside This Issue?

• An insightful “Presentación” introducing the editorial focus and thematic scope for the year.

• A collection of dossier and regular articles exploring topics such as:

  • Anthroponymy and toponymy in Latin American contexts

  • Naming practices and identity construction

  • Toponymic documentation in Indigenous and regional languages

  • Emerging onomastic methods in digital humanities

Each contribution undergoes double peer review, maintaining quality and relevance. The average submission-to-publication timeline is impressively under 48 weeks academia.edu+1ppgte.ufc.br+1e-revista.unioeste.br+3e-revista.unioeste.br+3academia.edu+3.

Why Read This Issue?

• Continue tracking major onomastic research published since 2020.

• Discover studies grounded in regional languages and cultural contexts.

• Access freely available scholarship with no publication or access fees

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📅 Spread the Word

Please share this launch within your academic networks, especially among scholars in linguistics, geography, cultural studies, and digital humanities. Onomastics continues to be an essential lens through which cultural identity and linguistic heritage are explored across Latin America—and there's much to discover in this issue!

Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer la parution du dossier thématique « Les Dynamiques de l'Anthroponymie : Héritages et Identités au Maghreb et en Afrique Subsaharienne », qui clôture le volume 6 (2025) de la revue Onomástica desde América Latina.

Ce dossier réunit six contributions qui interrogent les pratiques anthroponymiques contemporaines dans divers contextes africains, en dépassant la simple approche linguistique. Les noms y sont analysés comme faits sociaux, pratiques discursives et marqueurs identitaires, traversés par l’histoire, les dynamiques de pouvoir, les mutations culturelles et les tensions intergénérationnelles.

Deux grands axes structurent l’ensemble :

• L’étude de la transmission et recomposition des noms dans des contextes familiaux, migratoires ou communautaires ;

• L’analyse de la nomination comme acte discursif dans les espaces fictionnels et numériques.

Par une approche croisée – empirique, littéraire et sociolinguistique – ce dossier met en lumière la richesse d’une onomastique critique, située, et attentive aux voix africaines et à leurs manières de formuler et revendiquer l’identité.

📖 Auteures et auteurs :

• Nadjia Nehari-Roubaï (Université A. Ibn Badis-Mostaganem)

• Warayanssa Mawoune

• Amina Taibi-Maghraoui

🔗 Lire le dossier complet : DOI : 10.48075/odal.v6i1.35483

Nous vous souhaitons une excellente lecture de ce dossier stimulant, au croisement de l’anthroponymie, de la mémoire et des identités africaines.

New Onomastic Dossier: Names, Memory, and Identity in Africa

We are pleased to announce the publication of the thematic dossier “Les Dynamiques de l'Anthroponymie : Héritages et Identités au Maghreb et en Afrique Subsaharienne”, which closes Volume 6 (2025) of the journal Onomástica desde América Latina.

This dossier brings together six thought-provoking articles that explore naming practices in North and Sub-Saharan Africa. More than a simple linguistic examination, the authors treat names as social facts, discursive acts, and identity markers shaped by history, power relations, cultural shifts, and generational tensions.

The contributions are divided into two major themes:

• The transmission and transformation of personal names in familial, migratory, or community contexts;

• The discursive function of naming in fictional and digital spaces.

By bridging empirical, literary, and sociolinguistic perspectives, the dossier showcases a vibrant and situated African onomastics, attentive to local voices and identity narratives.

📖 Authors:

• Nadjia Nehari-Roubaï (Université A. Ibn Badis-Mostaganem)

• Warayanssa Mawoune

• Amina Taibi-Maghraoui

🔗 Read the full dossier: DOI: 10.48075/odal.v6i1.35483

We wish all readers a rewarding exploration of these essential contributions to African onomastic studies!

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🌍 Novo Dossiê Onomástico: Nomes, Memória e Identidade na África

Temos o prazer de anunciar que os artigos do dossiê temático “Les Dynamiques de l'Anthroponymie : Héritages et Identités au Maghreb et en Afrique Subsaharienne” foram publicados, encerrando o volume 06 (2025) do periódico Onomástica desde América Latina.

O dossiê reúne seis artigos que analisam as práticas de nomeação no Magrebe e na África Subsaariana, tratando os nomes não apenas como formas linguísticas, mas como fatos sociais, práticas discursivas e marcadores de identidade moldados por contextos históricos, relações de poder, transformações culturais e tensões intergeracionais.

Os textos se organizam em dois eixos principais:

• A transmissão e recomposição onomástica em contextos familiares, migratórios e comunitários;

• A nomeação como ato discursivo em espaços ficcionais e digitais.

Articulando abordagens empíricas, literárias e sociolinguísticas, o dossiê destaca uma onomástica africana crítica e situada, atenta às vozes e formas de expressão identitária do continente.

📖 Autores:

• Nadjia Nehari-Roubaï (Université A. Ibn Badis-Mostaganem)

• Warayanssa Mawoune

• Amina Taibi-Maghraoui

🔗 Leia o dossiê completo: DOI: 10.48075/odal.v6i1.35483

Desejamos a todos uma excelente leitura e uma imersão enriquecedora no campo da onomástica africana!