Thursday, November 28, 2013

Onomastic poem !

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread981225/pg1


Everything that exists has a name
give me a moment
I'll try to explain

A short introduction to Onomastics
the study of Names by Greek democratics

If you are a Human
it's called an Anthroponym

If it's home to a dolphin
the correct term is Hydronym


Regarding a country
it's known as a Demonym
this can also be referred to as Ethnonym

A name is such a little thing
the first gift you ever receive
hunter, gatherer, priest or king
a name is magic if you can believe


To ensure what sanity I have will remain
in a world obsessed with power and wealth
i choose to go by any other name
other than myself



ONOMASTIC SYSTEM OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES BY A. CONAN DOYLE

Onomastics of islands of the North Atlantic

http://www.project-iona.co.uk/onomastics

Project IONA is a treasure trove of information about the people and places of these islands of the North Atlantic. Inter alia, a database of names can be found.


Names in Novels: An Experiment in Computational Stylistics

By Karina van Dalen-Oskam



Year: 2013

Published in: Literary and Linguistic Computing, volume 28 issue 2 (Jun 2013), pages 359-370



http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/03/09/llc.fqs007

Summary

Proper names in literary texts have different functions. The most important one in real life, identification, is only one of these. Some others are to make the fiction more 'real' or to present ideas about a character by using a name with certain meanings or associations to manipulate the reader's expectations. A description of the functions of a certain name in a certain text becomes relevant when the researcher can point out how it compares to the functions of other names and names in other texts. The article describes how research into names in literary texts needs a quantitative approach to reach a higher level of relevancy. To get a first impression of what may be normal in literary texts, a corpus of twenty-two Dutch and twenty-two English novels and ten translations into the other language in both sets were gathered. The occurrences of all names in these novels have been tagged for those data categories that seemed useful for the literary stylistic research planned. Some first results of the statistics are presented and the use of the approach is illustrated by means of an analysis of the use of geographical names in the Dutch novel Boven is het stil by Gerbrand Bakker and its English translation by David Colmer, The Twin. In the evaluation of the results, special attention is paid to the status of currently available digital tools for named entity recognition and classification, followed by a wish-list for the tools that this kind of research really needs. Adapted from the source document

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Product Naming Manager at Cisco



For years, Cisco's vision has been to change the way the world works, lives, plays, and learns. Our vision is more relevant today than ever. We made the Internet what it is today. First, we focused on creating connectivity. Now, we're entering the Internet of Everything transition—an era where we'll help create unprecedented value by connecting the unconnected.

The Internet of Everything is a global industry phenomenon that is driving the biggest market transition for Cisco and our customers. This includes the intelligent connection of people, process, data, and things. It's where everything is converged on the Internet, making networked connections more relevant and valuable than before.

To help us bring this vision to life, join us in our exciting journey.

Location: UNITED STATES.CALIFORNIA.SAN JOSE



Cisco Naming Manager is responsible for providing strategic naming services to a broad community of requestors and clients across Cisco. Each year the brand management team provides ongoing strategic, consultative naming services, and manages the development of over 400 names at Cisco. This is a critical role within the brand management team to help manage and protect our global brand worth over $27 billion by leveraging our Cisco master brand strategy and naming architecture.


Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic, consultative naming services to a broad community of requestors and clients across Cisco on a day-to-day basis.

Manage legal submittal and approval of naming requests; submit recommendations and manage legal clearance review process, and advise client on final findings and usage.

Update naming guidelines and internal processes for successful adoption; create key usage guidelines as needed.

Monitor and improve online client naming request tool /database.

Develop monthly naming reports and trending information.

• Meet monthly with Legal team to advise of key naming initiatives and stakeholder requests; partner with Cisco’s legal department to manage Cisco’s portfolio of trademarks.

Partner with BAI Managers on naming for all newly acquired companies.

Develop and deliver names in response to naming requests:

1. Prioritize naming request and communicate time lines to client requestor and naming stakeholders

2. Collaborate with client requesters (business units, etc.) to fully understand naming needs and develop overall naming strategy

3. Drive naming development process, acting as strategic lead to guide development and vet list of proposed names

4. Lead naming presentation to client, providing naming strategy, naming options and rationale

5. Collaborate with the client to identify top selections

6. Work with legal team as needed for formal approval of names

7. Communicate name choice to all pertinent stakeholders

8. Manage the implementation of name through all pertinent Cisco groups and processes

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in brand, brand management, naming

• Prefer “brand-oriented” experience in high tech industry

• Strong client liaison abilities

• Proven project management skills

• Strong communication skills: comfort and finesse with PowerPoint as the communication vehicle of choice

Ability to discuss brand strategy/naming strategy and influence key stakeholders

• Ability to lead an initiative, and also be an outstanding team player

• Must have minimum of Bachelors Degree


https://www.cisco.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=957596&CurrentPage=88&sid=1400



Tuesday, November 19, 2013

O nazwach wodnych w Polsce by Ewa Wolnicz-Pawłowska

O nazwach wodnych w Polsce - Ewa Wolnicz-Pawłowska - Polnische Bücher | Slowianin polnische Buchhandlung | księgarnia polska internetowa


"Ime i identitet u književnoj teoriji" by Kristina Peternai Andrić




Ime i identitet u književnoj teoriji


The book, whose title in English would be "Name and identity in the literary theory", has been written on the basis of the doctoral thesis of Kristina Peternai Andrić. It makes an attempt to shed light on connections between identifying concepts and personal names within the scope of contemporary literary theory.

in Croation read under: http://www.mvinfo.hr/najnovije-knjige-opsirnije.php?ppar=8919




TRAČKO IME BOSNA I TRAČANI U BOSNI

TRAČKO IME BOSNA I TRAČANI U BOSNI - predslavenski korijeni Bošnjaka, knjiga III - Superknjižara

The new book on Thracian names in Bosnia by the Member of the Academy of Sciences in Bosnia Ibrahim Pašić.


Onomasticon Arabicum

Onomasticon Arabicum (OA) is a long-living database project. At present, its online-version informs on more than 12000 scholars and celebrities from the first Muslim millenary. Its entries in Arabic are compiled from ancient biographical dictionaries, a veritable treasure of Islamic culture. Crossed search allows separate interrogation on any of the different elements of the Arabo-Muslim names, dates and places, reconstructing the identity of a person, trace ways of knowledge transmission and frame historical contexts.

http://onomasticon.irht.cnrs.fr/php/oa.php


My surnames book is out!

onomastics | Slumberland


What’s in a name? Hypocorism

What’s in a name? Hypocorism


Saturday, November 16, 2013

Schoc?(h|k)enm(e|a)(i|y)e?r

The high degree of areal variation of the German surname system is now being made accessible 
by the German Surname Atlas project (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas), a cooperation between 
the universities of Freiburg and Mainz under the direction of Prof. Dr. Konrad Kunze in Freiburg 
and Prof. Dr. Damaris Nübling in Mainz. The project started in 2005 and runs till now.

The database consists of all fixed network telephone lines in the Federal Republic of Germany in the year 2005 as provided by the Deutsche Telekom AG. To come up with the approximate number of people who bear a specific name one multiplies the number of telephone lines by 2.9. In Germany, telephone lines are the only comprehensive and available data basis. They are arranged by postal code districts consisting of five digits each.

They usually do not create maps with a single name on it but rather maps which combine several names with the same characteristics by using so-called regular expressions. 

By courtesy of Professor Kunze, I could generate map localizing various possible spellings of my surname(s). The surname seems to be pretty rare (13 landlines): 5 for SchocHenmAier(s), 4 for SchocHenmEier(s), 2 for SchocKenmEier(s), 1 for SchocKenmAier and 1 for SchoKenmeier. By extrapolating, we'll get about 40 persons for the whole Germany(!).


  
As I can see, they are mixed up, but there is only one region where all surnames' versions are to be met. The postal code district is 562XX, where lie Koblenz and Urmitz. It's interesting to discover, because one of my relatives explained that we had taken our origin near to Heilbronn. 

The SHOKHENMAYERs

Long before I intented to carry out the research on my own surname: SHOKHENMAYER.

The actual "Shokhenmayer" is the translitteration from Russian "ШОХЕНМА(Й)ЕР". I was told that in various documents of my family in the beginning of the XXth century two German versions are to be found:

Schochenmeier

and

Schochenmaier.

Theoretically, there could be more:

Schochenmeyer 

Schochenmayer

Schockenmeier

Schockenmaier

Schockenmeyer

Schockenmayer

Schochenmayr

Schochenmair

Schochenmeir

Schockenmayr

Schockenmair

Schockenmeir

Post by post I will present everything I found in the archives, documents, maps and on the Internet. If you have some ideas, your help will be appriciated a lot!!!


Thursday, November 14, 2013

e-Onomastics is 1-year old !!!

It’s November 2013 and yes, I am celebrating my onomastic anniversary. 

We’re 1-year old! 



It was just a year ago that I decided to continually offer an array of onomastic posts to my readers, linguists, onomatologists.

The big number of visitors, gets me excited every time!

Yes, we can see that e-Onomastics has totally changed. 

I am focusing on creating onomastic postings for a wide range of scholars and purposes, from personal bloggers to professional linguists, on promoting and displaying onomastic news, events, products, publications, videos or services.

I have come a long way, but then to ensure a firm footing in the onomastic area, I do need to constantly move forward, bringing innovative ideas to my blog and updating myself in every which way! My onomastic gaze is set on it. So I am fast catching up to this revolutionized market of the applied onomastics. In fact, in a few time, I am looking to establish myself as your ultimate favorite onomastic blogger!

It has been an amazing first year for e-Onomastics… here’s to the next one and many more to come!

I am overwhelmed by the positive response I received from our readers. There has been almost forty thousand of visitors.

In the past one year, several onomastically oriented centers have written about us, featured us and put us up on their list of popular websites.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST !!!

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Тайны и легенды «града Тюменя» / Why Tyumen had been called "Tyumen"

Тайны и легенды «града Тюменя» | Тюменская область сегодня




It seems that the local journalist Yelena Dubovskaya has uncovered the mystery of the toponym "Tyumen", which is known as the first Russian town in the Siberia.



It was assumed that this placename had come
- from the Tatar "tumen" for "ten thousand" (as if a tenthousand army stood there);
- from the Bashkir "tumende" for "underneath" (as if the place was beneath);
- from the Ugric "chemgen" for "borough on the way";
- from the Turkic "tyu" for "belonging" and "myana" for "property" (as if it meant "my property")...

Mrs. Dubovskaya discovered that two voevodas of the Tsar, Vasily Sukin and Ivan Myasnoy, in 1586, whithout a second thought, while building up the stockaded town on the big river, recoursed to a naming centuries-old tradition after the junction where the settlement had started. It's very possible that those trailblazers had used the Ugric hydronym "Tem-enk" for naming the new-built fortress.


  


В Симферополе презентовали «Словарь географических названий Крыма»

В Симферополе презентовали «Словарь географических названий Крыма» (ФОТО) - 0652.ua - сайт города Симферополя

"Dictionary of toponyms of the Crimea" has been presented in Simferopol by the Ukrainian geographer Denis Bugaev. It's his work of 9 years, he collected new materials and unpublished photos. There are more than 2.300 short encyclopaedic entries about geographical objects and inhabited localities. Alternative names, maps, emblems, blazons, lost governships' lists and author's photos are to be found therein.



  

Депутаты думы Иркутска предлагают переименовать сквер имени Кирова в площадь графа Сперанского

Депутаты думы Иркутска предлагают переименовать сквер имени Кирова в площадь графа Сперанского | Новости Иркутска: экономика, спорт, медицина, культура, происшествия

Deputies of the Irkutsk Duma put forward to rename the Kirov square, named after a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union, to the Count Speransky Place in the honour of Mikhail Speransky (1772 – 1839) who was a Russian reformist during the reign of Alexander I of Russia, to which he was a close advisor. Speransky is referred to as the father of Russian liberalism.




От революции в Харькове остались только уличные таблички / Only street name signs were left in Kharkiv after the February Revolution of 1917

От революции в Харькове остались только уличные таблички - Харьков | KP.UA




Friday, November 1, 2013

Are our street names sexist?

BBC News - Are our street names sexist?


Costruiamo la rete delle reti femminili: Parla Maria Pia Ercolini di Toponomastica Femminil...

Costruiamo la rete delle reti femminili: Parla Maria Pia Ercolini di Toponomastica Femminil...: Ho accettato volentieri l’invito a questa riunione che, promuovendo una nuova iniziativa a favore della comunicazione fra donne, certament...


Toponomastica Femminile - Part 2 of 2



Questo gruppo nasce con l'idea di impostare ricerche, pubblicare dati e fare pressioni su ogni singolo territorio affinché strade, piazze, giardini e luoghi urbani in senso lato, siano dedicati alle donne per compensare l'evidente sessismo che caratterizza l'attuale odonomastica (branca della toponomastica).
Cartine al tornasole della misoginia ambientale, le targhe stradali d'ogni dove invitano alla riflessione.
Gli odonimi dei centri urbani, nell'Europa continentale, sono il risultato di scelte politiche e ideologiche ben chiare e consentono di leggere orientamenti e mode delle rispettive società.
Nell'Italia preunitaria prevalevano i riferimento ai santi, a mestieri e professioni esercitate sulle strade, e alle caratteristiche fisiche del luogo. In seguito, la necessità di cementare gli ideali nazionali, portò a ribattezzare strade e piazze dedicandole a protagonisti, uomini, del Risorgimento e in generale della patria; con l'avvento della Repubblica, si decise di cancellare le matrici di regime e di valorizzare fatti ed eroi, uomini, della Resistenza.
Ne deriva un immaginario collettivo di figure illustri esclusivamente maschili.
Chiediamo che tutte le Giunte Comunali, sulla scia di qualche buona pratica in corso, correggano la palese discriminazione in atto.

Source: Facebook/Toponomastica Femminile

Toponomastica Femminile - Part 1 of 2



Questo gruppo nasce con l'idea di impostare ricerche, pubblicare dati e fare pressioni su ogni singolo territorio affinché strade, piazze, giardini e luoghi urbani in senso lato, siano dedicati alle donne per compensare l'evidente sessismo che caratterizza l'attuale odonomastica (branca della toponomastica).
Cartine al tornasole della misoginia ambientale, le targhe stradali d'ogni dove invitano alla riflessione.
Gli odonimi dei centri urbani, nell'Europa continentale, sono il risultato di scelte politiche e ideologiche ben chiare e consentono di leggere orientamenti e mode delle rispettive società.
Nell'Italia preunitaria prevalevano i riferimento ai santi, a mestieri e professioni esercitate sulle strade, e alle caratteristiche fisiche del luogo. In seguito, la necessità di cementare gli ideali nazionali, portò a ribattezzare strade e piazze dedicandole a protagonisti, uomini, del Risorgimento e in generale della patria; con l'avvento della Repubblica, si decise di cancellare le matrici di regime e di valorizzare fatti ed eroi, uomini, della Resistenza.
Ne deriva un immaginario collettivo di figure illustri esclusivamente maschili.
Chiediamo che tutte le Giunte Comunali, sulla scia di qualche buona pratica in corso, correggano la palese discriminazione in atto.

Source: Facebook/Toponomastica Femminile

Prof.ssa Maria Pia Ercolini

http://www.youtube.com/v/ECpLWG_jCbk?version=3&autohide=1&showinfo=1&autoplay=1&autohide=1&attribution_tag=z-bF4QeEKttFL4yWJarDug&feature=share

Maria Pia Ercolini è una delle ideatrici di un importante progetto culturale e sociale: Toponomastica femminile, un'organizzazione che si impegna a far intitolare, o rititolare, vie e piazze italiane alle donne trascurate dalla Storia.

Manuscript layout as evidence for word prototypicality in Old English, with particular reference to onomastic items / Leonie Mhari Dunlop.

Manuscript layout as evidence for word prototypicality in Old English, with particular reference to onomastic items / Leonie Mhari Dunlop.

This master thesis investigates the contribution of manuscript spacing to our understanding of Old English palaeography, the development of the language, and the categorization of lexical items. This study focusses on onomastic items and their treatment in a section of the Old English annals of the Parker Chronicle and Peterborough Chronicle. While many studies focus on the reader’s relationship to the text, this research focusses on the scribe’s relationship to the text. Influenced by Saenger’s Space between Words (1997), this thesis uses a new methodology to measure the spacing between lexical items and collect data. The results challenge the categorization of lexical items in Old English as they are currently defined and illustrate the potential of this approach in further research. They also reaffirm the importance of observing the manuscripts themselves.

http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3180/
http://books.google.de/books/about/Manuscript_Layout_as_Evidence_for_Word_P.html?id=WEySMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y 

written and defended by Dunlop, Leonie Mhari



http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/postgrad/currentpostgraduatestudents/leoniemdunlop/

Leonie is the PhD student on the AHRC–funded Scottish Toponymy in Transition project (www.gla.ac.uk/stit/) which is running for three years at Glasgow University. She started her PhD in October 2011. From her doctoral studies she has developed interests in historical geography, medieval economics and the emergence of Scots language.

Leonie is investigating the place-names of Berwickshire. Within Berwickshire there are 32 historical parishes. Her research focuses on four parishes: Abbey St Bathans, Bunkle & Preston, Cockburnspath and Coldingham. A large number of medieval charters dating from 11th-13th century survive in Durham for Coldingham. Areas of investigation will include Anglo-Scottish relations, the treatment of place-names in medieval documents, and a diachronic survey of the place-names. This survey will include information collected from local residents about field-names and other unpublished names. Names in use today will be transcribed to show the local pronunciation. Using the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary the relationship between the lexicon and the onomasticon will be mapped. 

Along with Alice Crook (PhD student in the school of Critical Studies) Leonie runs the Onomastics Reading Group and ‘onomastics.co.uk’ (built and maintained by Scott McGready). Together they are organizing the pre-conference workshop for the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland in April 2013.