Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Basel, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-232) and index.

Inaug.-disc.--Tübingen. / Lebenslauf. "Quellen": p. 93-95.

Thesis--Münster (Westf.). / Vita. At head of title: Slavische Philologie. Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-257).

Includes bibliographical references (p. (222)--225) and index.

A mention of name in literature is almost always likely to recall the question Juliet posed to Romeo about his family name Montague in William Shakespeare´s Romeo and Juliet. In reading creative works we tend to identify characters basically by the names given to them. It is on this basic premise that some character analysis methods tend to define characters by taking recourse to their names and sometimes identifying them in metaphorical terms or as speaking names. Names play a very central and important role in any reading exercise and so would certainly the names given to characters be of importance to us. These are linguistic or semiotic signs that play a very crucial role in the overall linguistic structure of a literary text or its signification. Decoding of the names therefore becomes an important critical engagement in as far as it helps the reader in his deciphering of the text in which the names are. Characters´ names, as this article will show, can be used artistically to achieve a number of goals like encoding a central trait in a particular character´s signification, embracing crucial thematic motifs, ideological toning as well as even showing the particular writer´s point of view. Some of these qualities are easily lost in translation.

Heidrun Wiesenmüller von der Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart stellte die an der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek entwickelte systematische Oberfläche zur Recherche von kartographischen Materialien (OSKAR) vor. Darüber hinaus problematisierte sie die sachliche Recherche nach Karten insgesamt: Diese ist mit verbalen Mitteln völlig unzulänglich und bleibt auch mit klassifikatorischen unbefriedigend. Es gibt jedoch schon Systeme, bei denen die Benutzer den gewünschten geographischen Raum auf einer Übersichtskarte markieren können. Grundlage für die Ausgabe der passenden Treffer ist die Erfassung von Koordinaten bei der Erschließung der Materialien. Der Wunschtraum aller Kartenbibliothekare ist die Schaffung eines Verbundkatalogs aller Kartensammlungen in Bibliotheken, Archiven, geographischen Instituten etc., der auch eine Recherche in der geschilderten Weise ermöglicht. Zur Einführung: http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/forum/forum2003_1.pdf

Forscher:innen eindeutig zu identifizieren ist durch Namensgleichheit, Namensänderungen oder verschiedene existierende Namensvarianten und Schreibweisen eine anhaltende Herausforderung im Wissenschaftsbetrieb. Eine Lösung für dieses Problem bietet die international anerkannte Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), die wir in dieser Ausgabe näher vorstellen.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Basel, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-232) and index.

In comparison with personal names toponyms have been rather neglected in studies on literary onomastics. Place names may seem less promising for onomastic research because authors tend to anchor their narratives in the actual world much more than characters. However, place names in literature fulfil important tasks: they mainly contribute to the fictional constitution of space. The question whether the actual counterparts of fictional place names are of any importance for the reader has been discussed very controversially. But place names may also help to create a certain mood or local colour. They even may indicate the passing of time. As all these phenomena are based on mental processes which take place in the reader’s brain this paper tries to study them with the help of actual cognitive science.

Although it has spread mainly as a lingua franca, Kiswahili, Kenya`s national language, is increasingly becoming the language of intercultural communication. Most interestingly, Kiswahili is catching up as the medium of intra-group conversation in many rural up-country areas in Kenya. Not only do most Kenyan women wear lesos and kangas bearing Kiswahili proverbial sayings but the youth form different language communication almost invariably converse and interact through the medium of share or just Kiswahili. This brief paper sets out to speculate on the nature of Swahili lexical diffusion in up-country Kenya. Observation is made of the plorification of common Swahili names in both urban and rural areas far from the Swahili speaking coast. The paper argues that given the ever-growing tendency for non-Swahili speaking Kenyan up-country communities to adopt and use Swahili names represents a forum of intercultural communication. There seems to be a deliberate socio-cultural and political preference for Swahili names not just to denote borrowed Swahili concepts in the up-country communities but to forge a `nationalistic`culture as opposed to a localized and ethnic culture.