Personal Names and Naming from an Anthropological-Linguistic Perspective, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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This book is a global demonstration of the nexus between culture and personal names. It demonstrates how personal names and naming across the world are forms of performing, representing and expressing culture and identity. The book deviates from the traditional focus on Western Europe and North America to focus on multiple global centres. It explores how personal names and naming are intricately bound up with issues that define a people's cultural reality. The chapters explore how the etymologies, meanings, ethnopragmatics, and the grammar of personal names encode, express, symbolize and embody cultural reality. It is aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate learners and educators in a variety of disciplines.