This thesis deals with collective nicknames denoting the inhabitants of a place (parish, village etc.) in northern Sweden, i.e. names of the type arnästjuvar (denoting the inhabitants of the parish of Arnäs; tjuv 'thief') and tynderötuppar (denoting the inhabitants of the parish of Tynderö; tupp 'cock'). The main aim of the thesis is to explain why various nickname elements were chosen and to describe the general character of the nicknames of northern Sweden. These nicknames have been used collectively about the inhabitants of a certain place in a jocular or derogatory sense. They have been used above all in male-dominated contexts, e.g. in military camps. The nicknames are ethnocentric: they denote individuals in their capacity as members of a group. They are often related to other, similar names, so that they form series which are connected phonetically, semantically or from the point of view of word formation. The discussion of these aspects is based on Hugo Moser's research on "Namenfelder". Sources from about 1600 to the present day have been used as material. The bulk of the material consists of answers to questionnaires from the 20th century. Because of the construction of the questionnaires the material is to some extent imperfect. The nicknames often reflect various aspects of the society of the individuals, but today the explanation for names is quite often secondary and a result of folk-etymology. Some nicknames reflect the trades of the inhabitants, others social conditions, diet or dress, others ethnic conditions. The nickname strömmingar was often given to people living on the coast where fishing was an important source of income. The nickname element finnar reflects local settlement by Finns. Some nicknames probably reflect various linguistic conditions (dialectal pronunciation, characteristic place-names or personal names), pictures in local seals or historical events. Several nickname elements have been chosen through association with the form of the place-name or the name of the inhabitants, or with existing nicknames, referring either to the inhabitants themselves or their neighbours. There is often a similarity in sound between the place-name (or the name of the inhabitants) and nickname elements. We find e.g. alliteration, assonance and rhyme, or formations in which the place-name (or the name of the inhabitants, or part of it) is compounded with a nickname element to make up an appellative which already exists. The latter kind of formation may be illustrated with the nickname bergtroll ('mountain trolls') to denote those who live in S'àvaiberg (in the parish of Sävar). Some nicknames have as their basis an association from the place-name (or the name of the inhabitants) to the nickname element chosen. The associations are frequently difficult to trace. A nickname like orrlidtuppar (denoting those who live in Orrliden in the parish of Skellefteå) was no doubt chosen through association with the appellative orrtupp 'blackcock'. When the nickname smedstaspiken (denoting the inhabitants of Smedsta in the parish of Lit) was coined, the place-name element smed 'smith' was associated with the closely related spik 'nail'. A close analysis of nicknames denoting parish inhabitants in northern Sweden shows that there are often pairs (or series) of nicknames which are related phonetically (through alliteration, assonance or rhyme), semantically or morphologically, just as nicknames denoting neighbours may be connected in a similar way. Frequently, parish inhabitants have different names in relation to different neighbours. How innovations are introduced and spread is shown by the sfw/"/Z?wf-nicknames in the province of Ångermanland. An analysis of the nicknames denoting the inhabitants of parishes in north-eastern Ångermanland shows that the inhabitants of the old parishes have only one nickname each-a name which is known over a large area-while the inhabitants of the newer parishes have several nicknames. The reason why several nicknames are used to denote inhabitants in newer parishes seems to be that there was no old, unequivocal nickname tradition to fall back on. In the final chapter the importance of patterns for the formation of nicknames is stressed, but also the importance of creativity and coinages. A striking coinage has a great chance of becoming generally accepted and also of becoming the centre of new groups of nicknames. / digitalisering@umu

The thesis has been following the bachelor thesis, which engaged the onomastic analysis in town Pacov, concretely the domain of antroponomastic (last names and nicknames). Records were obtained thanks to database of registry office, next by using of interviews and by research directed to the social site Facebook. The objective is to realize the analyse in more frequently occurring last names and nicknames with consideration of their motivated origin. Analysis and classification of nicknames have been made on the basis of testimonies of citizens of Pacov and nicknameholders with the possibility to next associations. There have been incepted the complex language collection, which have surveyed the antroponomastic status of town Pacov in 2014-2017.

The topic of this thesis deals with the onomastics of the Moravian village "Láz". The main part of the exploration are the types of surnames and names after residence in Láz. The next item of interest are the nicknames appearing in the village. I got the onomastic material from the set of surnames, names by the houses and I have gained the nicknames with the help of exploratory methods through the questionnairs and dialogues. I make the analysis using of traditional clasiffication degrees. The thesis aims to make a register of official and unofficial personal names and their linguistic analysis.

This thesis focuses on linguistic analysis of official and unofficial personal names in Čenkov near Malšice. The subject matter of the research are surnames, names after residence and nicknames in the above mentioned village. I gained surnames from the list of inhabitants, names after residence and nicknames using questionnaires and dialogues. Classification as well as this antropomastic material analysis are based on study of professional literature and traditional classification procedures. The goal of this thesis is to make a survey on types of surnames, names after residence, nicknames and to contribute to onomastics of the village Čenkov near Malšice.

Orientador: Sheila Elias de Oliveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T16:40:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro_ViniciusMassad_M.pdf: 1121433 bytes, checksum: 1f898c21e69c03fe62345d55804de326 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Neste trabalho, nos propomos a estudar a apelidação de pessoas e os apelidos de pessoa a partir da perspectiva enunciativa desenvolvida por Guimarães (2002), a Semântica do Acontecimento, tendo como corpus os apelidos de pessoa presentes na Apelista de 2011 - lista telefônica organizada por apelidos - da cidade de Cláudio (MG). Assumindo a apelidação de pessoa como uma prática enunciativa de renomear e o apelido como um tipo de nome próprio de pessoa produzido a partir dessa prática, procuraremos compreender basicamente três aspectos relacionados aos apelidos e a apelidação de pessoa: (1) o funcionamento semântico-enunciativo da apelidação de pessoa, ou nomeação lúdica de pessoa, como proporemos chamá-la, na relação com a nomeação jurídica de pessoa, a que atribui nomes jurídicos de pessoa por meio do registro civil de um Estado; (2) o funcionamento formal (fonético e morfossintático) e semântico-enunciativo dos apelidos de pessoa; (3) como é configurada a cena enunciativa da atribuição de um apelido a uma pessoa. Por meio dos resultados obtidos a partir das análises de (1), (2) e (3) será possível realizar uma reflexão sobre a prática enunciativa de apelidar no espaço de enunciação da língua portuguesa do Brasil, assim como mostrar a especificidade da apelidação e dos apelidos em relação, por exemplo, a nomeação jurídica e aos nomes jurídicos, e também inscrever a apelidação na problemática dos nomes próprios, pela distinção entre nome próprio jurídico de pessoa e nome próprio lúdico de pessoa / Abstract: In this work, we propose to study personal nicknaming and nicknames inside the enunciative perspective developed by Guimarães (2002), the Semântica do Acontecimento, having as a corpus the personal nicknames in the 2011 Apelista - phonebook organized by nicknames - of the city of Cláudio (MG). Assuming the personal nicknaming as an enunciative practice of renaming and the personal nickname as a type of personal proper name produced by this practice, we will try to comprehend three aspects related to the personal nicknames and nicknaming: (1) the semantic-enunciative functioning of the personal nicknaming, or the ludic personal nomination, expression with which we will propose to term the personal nicknaming, in the relation with the juridical personal nomination, the nomination by which juridical personal names are given by the civil registration of a Estate; (2) the formal (phonetic and morpho-syntatical) and semantic-enunciative functioning of the personal nicknames; (3) how the enunciative scene of the personal nicknaming is configured. With the results obtained by the analysis of (1), (2) and (3), it will be possible to make a reflexion about the enunciative practice of nicknaming in the enunciative space of the Portuguese language of Brasil and to show the specificity of the nicknaming and the nicknames in relation with, for example, the juridical nomination and the juridical names, and also to inscribe the nicknaming, with the distinction between juridical personal proper name and ludic personal proper name, in the studies of proper names / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística

Abstract This essay deals with the creation and usage of nicknames in synchronous CMC. Nicknames from four different IRC chat conversations related to three different topic groups have been examined. The method draws on Bechar-Israeli’s (1996) categorisation of nicknames, which has been adapted to suit the type of data sampled. Three research questions have been posed, which, in view of other studies related to this field of research (e.g. Ellison et al. 2006, Scheidt 2001, Chester & Gwynne 1998, etc.) have been examined to obtain information about the degree of anonymity and the topic-relatedness of nicknames used in chatrooms. The results show that users participating in synchronous CMC indeed follow topic-related rules for self-presentation and that anonymity has varying importance in different chatrooms.

Nicknames have been analysed, recorded and processed in many diverse ways by different languages, scholars and communities. In Zulu, many works of similar type have all been the size of an article up until 1999. This research on the subject is one of the first done in this depth. Nicknames form part of a Zulu person's daily life. They identify him/her more than the real or legal name. They shape him/her more than any other mode of address. They influence behaviour, personality, interaction based activities and the general welfare of an individual. They discipline, they praise, they mock too. Surprisingly, they are regarded as play items. They are even termed playnames (izidlaliso). But they are as serious as any item that makes an individual to be a significant figure in the community. They are unique in the sense that they stick more obstinately on the victim should he/she try to get rid of them. They are capable of staying for life. They only vanish to give others a chance to feature on the same individual. They are so poetic. A talented onomastician can tell a full story about an individual without him grabbing what is being said about him just because the story is spiced with just a single figurative nickname. They haunt the whole arena of the parts of speech in a language, especially the Zulu language. They modify the well known meaning of words into special references that paint in bright colours the character of an individual. Zulu nicknames processes visit all possible languages and adapt items from into Zuluised special terms that a capable of inheriting an onomastic status. They originate even from the most sensitive sources like people's private lives. The only challenging area about nicknames is that bearers do not want to expose them to peale who are not known to them, even if they do not fall into a category of nicknames for ridicule. Finally, nicknames have been exposed here as linguistic items that organise the community into makers and bearers, and then users of nicknames. / African Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

Nicknames have been analysed, recorded and processed in many diverse ways by different languages, scholars and communities. In Zulu, many works of similar type have all been the size of an article up until 1999. This research on the subject is one of the first done in this depth. Nicknames form part of a Zulu person's daily life. They identify him/her more than the real or legal name. They shape him/her more than any other mode of address. They influence behaviour, personality, interaction based activities and the general welfare of an individual. They discipline, they praise, they mock too. Surprisingly, they are regarded as play items. They are even termed playnames (izidlaliso). But they are as serious as any item that makes an individual to be a significant figure in the community. They are unique in the sense that they stick more obstinately on the victim should he/she try to get rid of them. They are capable of staying for life. They only vanish to give others a chance to feature on the same individual. They are so poetic. A talented onomastician can tell a full story about an individual without him grabbing what is being said about him just because the story is spiced with just a single figurative nickname. They haunt the whole arena of the parts of speech in a language, especially the Zulu language. They modify the well known meaning of words into special references that paint in bright colours the character of an individual. Zulu nicknames processes visit all possible languages and adapt items from into Zuluised special terms that a capable of inheriting an onomastic status. They originate even from the most sensitive sources like people's private lives. The only challenging area about nicknames is that bearers do not want to expose them to peale who are not known to them, even if they do not fall into a category of nicknames for ridicule. Finally, nicknames have been exposed here as linguistic items that organise the community into makers and bearers, and then users of nicknames. / African Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal,Durban, 2003.

The subject of this thesis is surnames and nicknames of inhabitants of Český Rudolec. The basic material was obtained from a list of the names of local inhabitants. To get a list of nicknames, the exploratory methods were used (usually by means of an interview). The analysis of names and nicknames will be conducted using traditional classification methods. The goal of the thesis is an analysis of official and non-official names of the local inhabitants.