Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives aims to analyse names and the act of naming from an intercultural perspective, both synchronically and diachronically.
The volume is divided into four main parts (Theory of Names, Anthroponomastics, Toponomastics, Names in Society), which are, in turn, organised into thematic chapters and subchapters.
The book sets to offer a bird’s-eye view of names and naming; this synthesis is made possible, on the one hand, by the blending of synchronic and diachronic viewpoints in the investigation of language facts and, on the other, by the fruitful conjunction of modern and classic theories. The originality and the novelty of the subject lies in the multi-disciplinary approach, in which the field of onomastics merges with that of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, history, literature, stylistics, religion, etc. The thematic diversity also derives from the meeting, within the pages of this book, of specialists (35 linguists and literati) from 11 countries on three continents.
Oliviu Felecan, PhD, is Associate Professor (Reader) at the North University Center of Baia Mare (part of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Faculty of Letters, the Department of Philology and Cultural Studies. His published works include: The Concept of “Work” – A Diachronic Sociolinguistic Perspective (2004); Dicta Memorabilia: Annotated Everyday Dictionary of Latin Acronyms, Expressions, Aphorisms and Quotations (co-author, 2007); The Latin Language: Grammar and Texts (co-author, 2007, 2008); The Romanian Language in European Context (2009); Onomasticon: Studies on Names and Naming, I (coordinator, 2010); Linguistic and Philological Confluences (co-editor, 2011); and Name and Naming: Proceedings of the International Conference on Onomastics, 1st Edition: Multiethnic Connections in Anthroponymy (editor, 2011).
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