The future of the Nordic socio-onomastic network

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by Terhi Ainiala, Emilia Aldrin & Birgit Eggert

The NOS-HS workshop-project New Trends in Nordic Socio-onomastics has been completed with really good results, and is now continuing as a network for Nordic scientists working with socio-onomastics.

One of the project results is this website, that will be the center of the network from now on. The network members will regularly publish blog posts with news about research, events and publications with socio-onomastic content. The entries will be written in the Nordic languages ​​or English. The web-blog will be the most dynamic feature on the site, but new information about research ideas and network participants will be added when relevant.

The research project ideas identified through the workshop-project live on in smaller sub-networks. Each of these sub-networks will explore the best ways to bring each idea in to life as concrete research projects, and – possibly – also work with a variation of smaller outcome with different angles on the subjects. The project ideas will be developed over time depending on the concrete resources available.

At the same time, we will try to apply for funding for another NOS-HS workshop series to be able to concretize and sharpen those of the project topics that are best suited for large projects with collaboration between several researchers from different countries. The aim of this will be a concentrated preparation of specific research applications that are strong enough for international competition.

The upcoming Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics / Nordisk Tidskrift för socio-onomastik will soon be presented in more detail here on the blog. It will be a significant publishing channel for future socio-onomastic research both in the Nordic region and in a wider international context.

Our network will present its results and future ideas at the next international onomastic congress in Krákow in August 2020 (ICOS 2020). We encourage all interested in socio-onomastics to contact us there.

We look forward to be acquainted with the many new socio-onomastic initiatives that we hope and expect the future will bring.

"Socio-onomastics" expected on May 2017

https://benjamins.com/online/hop/articles/soc4

Socio-onomastics

The pragmatics of names

Edited by Terhi Ainiala and Jan-Ola Östman

University of Helsinki

https://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.275/main


The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trends within socio-onomastics, interactional onomastics, contact onomastics, folk onomastics, and linguistic landscape studies. The volume is an introduction to these fields – with the introductory chapter giving an overview of, and an update on, recent onomastic study – and in addition offers detailed in-depth analyses of place names, person names, street names and commercial names from different perspectives: historically, as well as from the point of view of the impact of globalization and glocalization. All the chapters focus on the use and function of names and naming, on changes in name usage, and on the reasons for, processes in, and results of names in contact.

Hardbound – Forthcoming

ISBN 9789027256805| EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00

e-Book – ForthcomingOrdering information

ISBN 9789027265692| EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 275]  Expected May 2017.  ix, 226 pp. + index

Publishing status: In production

© John Benjamins

Names in Focus: An Introduction to Finnish Onomastics

A new book on onomastics has been recently published by three beautiful Finnish scholars !

"Names in Focus: An Introduction to Finnish Onomastics"

by Terhi Ainiala ( well-known Finnish onomastician, Research Institute for the Languages of Finland, University of Helsinki)

                                                http://www.kotus.fi/index.phtml?s=3240

On the ICOS 23 in Canada she has presented "Slang Toponyms in Early Twentieth Century Helsinki" with a co-author: http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CF4QFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fyorkspace.library.yorku.ca%2Fxmlui%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10315%2F4047%2Ficos23_1030.pdf&ei=xavlUJ3LJsHNtAbS24CQBA&usg=AFQjCNG6AJS2p73J673cB1mXZexUa5QGiw&sig2=yUa76vxPrNThajfM0hRNZA&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.Yms&cad=rja
She has also contributed in 2008 with a chapter “Socio-onomastics” in Handbook of Pragmatics, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.). You may enjoy her new article "Place Names and Identities: The Uses of Names of Helsinki" (2012, in OSLA, Vol.4, No.2): https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/osla/article/view/306


Minna Saarelma  (Docent at the University of Helsinki)

 http://www.minervakustannus.fi/kirjailijat/index.php?kirjailija=86

I don't know why but her name is written wrong on Amazon and its "off-springs":  http://www.amazon.de/Names-Focus-Introduction-Finnish-Onomastics/dp/9522223875, http://www.bookworld.com.au/book/names-in-focus-an-introduction-to-finnish-onomastics/37288784/, http://www.whitcoulls.co.nz/book/names-in-focus-an-introduction-to-finnish-onomastics/39199901/). She is author of "Nimi lapselle" (2007) (I suggest translating like: "Name of the Child"), "Nimipäiväjuhlat" (2006) (I would translate into English as: "Name Day Celebrations") and "Edhina Ekogidho - Names As Links: The Encounter Between African And European Anthroponymic Systems Among the Ambo People in Namibia" (2003). The latter represents her academic dissertation : http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/suome/vk/saarelma-maunumaa/. Now she is Minna Saarelma-Paukkala: http://almanakka.helsinki.fi/npt2012s/nimitutkija.html.


 and Paula Sjöblom (Docent, lecturer at University of Turku, School of Economics)

 http://www.utuonline.fi/sisalto/ajankohtaista/names-in-the-economy-symposium-2012.html

On Amazon websites her name is written without Umlaut((((. I have read her "9 Finnish company names. Their structure and functions". This article is concerned with Finnish company names and their structure and functions. It is based on the author’s dissertation (2006).


I must add that all together they have already published one work titled "Nimistontutkimuksen Perusteet" in 2008 (what I would translate as "Onomastic criteria"). ISBN: 9789517469920 (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura).

And finally, the abstract of their new book:

This book delves deep into the vast field of Finnish onomastics, covering place names, personal names, animal names, commercial names and names in literature. It provides the history and current trends in this area of research, and also supplements international terminology with the Finnish point of view on the subject. Brimming with examples and clear explanations, the book can be enjoyed by the most adamant of researchers or those who just have a genuine interest in the study of names.

287 pages
Finnish Literature Society
ISBN-10: 9522223875
ISBN-13: 978-9522223876

LET'S READ IT !