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- Aldrin, Emilia, 1982-
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Assessing Names? : Effects of Name-Based Stereotypes on Teachers’ Evaluations of Pupils’ Texts
- 2017
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Ingår i: Names. - Abingdon : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0027-7738 .- 1756-2279. ; 65:1, s. 3-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the effects of name-based ethnic and social stereotypes on teachers’ grading of pupils’ texts in contemporary Sweden. A total of 113 practicing Swedish high school teachers assessed an authentic pupil text with one of three male names inserted, each intended to evoke a certain ethnic or social stereotype. Participants also explained their grading and answered questions regarding key features of the text. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted. The study concludes that name-based stereotypes generally have little influence on teachers’ assessment in contemporary Sweden. Results indicate a systematic but small and not statistically relevant name effect. A negative effect can be seen with regard to an ethnically marked name. This effect is shown when teachers evaluate language proficiency, but not for other features of the text. Regarding socioeconomically marked names there is little systematic effect. The study also suggests, however, that there may be compensatory mechanisms limiting the name effect. © 2016 American Name Society.
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- Aldrin, Emilia, 1982-
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Naming, Identity, and Social Positioning in Teenagers’ Everyday Mobile Phone Interaction
- 2019
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Ingår i: Names. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 0027-7738 .- 1756-2279. ; 67:1, s. 30-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes how a small group of Swedish teenagers handle onomastic choices of self- and other-referencing as part of their everyday mobile phone interaction. It further discusses how the teenagers explained their views regarding online names during interviews. The data are analyzed qualitatively using theories of identity and socialpositioning. Results show considerable differences between onomastic strategies used for self- and other-referencing. Self-referencing names were often practical, coherent, and authentic to the offline self, while other-referencing names were more flexible, creative, and socially positioned. However, the teenagers also displayed varying individual onomastic strategies and different folk-onomastic views on the function of usernames. © 2018 American Name Society
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- Edlund, Lars-Erik, 1953-
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Minority language place-names : a practice-oriented study of the establishment of the South Sami Kraapohke in Swedish Lapland
- 2018
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Ingår i: Names. - : Routledge. - 0027-7738 .- 1756-2279. ; 66:3, s. 156-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The implementation of the Swedish minority policy has resulted in the national minority languages having been visualized. But what minority language place-names should be put on road signs together with the Swedish names?This article is focused on the establishment of the Sami toponym for Dorotea in southern Swedish Lapland. The question is which of the following Sami names should be adopted as the official name: Birjevahne (< Sw. Bergvattnet), Döörte (< Sw. Dorotea), or the original South Sami Kraapohke. This practice-oriented study illustrates the problems involved in finding out how Sami names are used in living language. Such problems generally arise when place-names are handed down by small language communities.The establishment of the Sami name Kraapohke illustrates the complicated questions that arise when working with minority language place-names and the identity processes associated with such names.
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- Grimbeek, Marinette, 1982-
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Wholesale Apocalypse: Brand Names in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
- 2016
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Ingår i: Names. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0027-7738 .- 1756-2279. ; 64:2, s. 88-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Coinages pervade Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic novel Oryx and Crake (2003). Most of the neologisms in the novel denote corporations and their products and form part of a thoroughgoing critique of consumerism. The coinages are jarringly hyperbolic and their orthography often evokes contrary connotations. However, in the thematic context of the novel, coining practices follow certain patterns and function as effective, if ambiguous, satirical tools. On one level, the practice of branding is thoroughly satirized. On another, however, the neologisms point to both the limitations and possibilities of satire when dealing with the themes addressed in the novel: commoditization, environmental damage on a planetary scale, and a vision of the imminent end of humanity itself.
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