American Name Society
Linguistic Society of America
And
The American Dialect Society
Thursday, 6 January 2005
Chair: Ronald R. Butters (Duke U)
Room:
1:30 – 3:30 PM.
Ronald R. Butters (Duke U) Fay
Etrange of Kuntzville: Names in queer novels before Stonewall
Phillip Carter (NC SU) The
social meaning of drag queen names
Rebecca Childs (U GA)
Drag kings: Creating a name in a more socially
conscious performance space
Arnold Zwicky (Stanford U)
How to name a porn star
Cross-cultural onomastics I
Chair: Chao-chih Liao (Ntl
U-Kaohsiung)
Room:
4:00 Kenneth
Zuercher (U TX-Arlington) Personal names in Azerbaijan: A quantitative
analysis
Discussant: Samira Farwaneh (U AZ)
4:30 Edwin
D. Lawson (SUNY-Fredonia), Richard F. Sheil (SUNY-Fredonia) & Farid
Alakbarov (Azerbaijan Ntl Acad Sci)
Azeri
Naming Patterns, 1900-2001
Discussant: Samira Farwaneh (U AZ)
5:00 Uri
Tadmor (Max Planck Inst) The unique personal names of the
Kualan-Samandang of Western Borneo
Discussant: Dwan Shipley (W WA U)
5:30 Dwan
Shipley (W WA U) Historical
migration influences on the toponyms of Remote Oceania with specific
concentration on the Fiji Islands
Discussant: Peter P. Schweitzer (U AK-Fairbanks)
Friday, 7 January 2005
Morning
Invited
Plenary Address: Keynote
Room:
Time 9:00-10:00
Moderator: Edward Callary (N IL U)
Discussant:
Sheila Embleton (York U)
Names and naming in native northwestern California -- William Bright (U Col)
Chair: Uri Tadmor (Max
Planck Inst)
Room:
10:00 Rungpat
Roengpitya (Chulalongkorn U) Names, address and reference terms used in
US and Thai political discourse
Discussant: Uri Tadmor (Max Planck Inst)
10:30 Noriko
Watanabe (Baruch C-CUNY)
Japanese first names and the politics of script
control
Discussant: Jensen Chung (San Francisco SU)
11:00 Peter
P. Schweitzer (U AK-Fairbanks) Mapping the invisible: Toward a Bering
Strait census of personal names
Discussant: Dwan
Shipley (W WA U)
11:30 Samira
Farwaneh (U AZ) Linguistic
cues of gender perception in Arabic
Discussant: Saundra K. Wright (CA
SU-Chico)
Friday, 7 January 2005
Afternoon
Chair: Herbert Barry, III
(U Pittsburgh)
1:00 Charles
Pfukwa (Zimbabwe Open U) Rewriting
Identities: Guerrilla nicknames in the Zimbabwean Guerrilla War
(1966-79)
Discussant: Herbert Barry, III (U
Pittsburgh)
1:30 Anthony Chukwuemeka Oha (Ambrose Alli U, Nigeria) Onomastic semiotization
in Nigerian movies
Discussant: Bruce T. Downing (U MN)
Chair:
André Lapierre (U Ottawa)
Room:
2:00 Roberta
Arney (UTEP) The Lurline H.
Coltharp Collection of Onomastics
Discussant: Grant Smith (E WA U)
2:30 Alan Rayburn (Indep Scholar) Corruption: Excising a pejorative word and its
cognates from the onomasticon
Discussant: Donald J. Orth
3:00 Edward
Callary (N IL U) Should
pronunciations be included in place name dictionaries?
Discussant: Elizabeth Marino (U AK-Fairbanks)
3:30 Lewis
McArthur (Portland, OR) Advances in publishing technology,
placenames, and GNIS
Chair: Grant Smith (E WA U)
4:00 Tom McClive (STG for US State Dept) & Mark Arehart (AT&T for US State Dept) Romanization systems, phonemic mapping, and human guesswork: The conflation and splintering of computerized non-English names
4:30 Bruce T. Downing (U MN) Phonological features of American English given names
Discussant: Herbert Barry, III (U
Pittsburgh)
5:00 Kemp
Williams (Lang Anal Sys) Entropy, word length, and cross-linguistic
similarity in statistical surname classification
Saturday, 8 January
Morning
Room:
Time 9:00-10:00
Moderator:
Alan Rayburn (Indep Scholar)
Discussant:
Edward Callary (N IL U)
How
we name our enterprises: Decoding the unwritten codes -- Wilbur Zelinsky (PA
SU)
Chair:
Donald J. Orth (US Board Geog Names)
10:00 André Lapierre (U Ottawa) Rheims, Lyons and Marseilles: Origin,
evolution and usage
10:30 Mat
Pires (U Franche-Comté, Besançon,
France) Pigeon Park : Popular toponymy and functional semantics in the naming
of Birmingham’s first green space
Discussant: Edward Callary (N IL U)
11:00 Elizabeth
Marino (U AK-Fairbanks) A Landscape in translation: Place names and
language shift in White Mountain, Alaska
Discussant: Mat Pires (U Franche-Comté, Besançon,
France)
11:30 Laurel
Sutton (Catchword Brand Name Devel/UC Berkeley) Cheddar is from Cheddar, except when it is not:
Renaming geographical indicators
Discussant: Alan Rayburn (Independent Scholar)
12:30 Iman
Makeba Laversuch (U Freiburg/U Zurich) The naming patterns of 18th century runaway
African American Slaves as featured in the Virginia Gazette Between 1736
and 1776: A corpus linguistic onomastic study
Discussant: Margaret G. Lee (Hampton
U)
1:00 Margaret
G. Lee (Hampton U) Royalty,
respect, and superiority in the titles and/or nicknames of African American music
artists
Discussant: Iman Makeba Laversuch (U
Freiburg/U Zurich)
Chair: Bruce
T. Downing (U MN)
1:30 Denis Huschka (Germ Inst Econ Res/Free U
Berlin) & Gert G. Wagner (Germ Inst Econ Res/Berlin U Tech)
Personal
given names in Germany an empirical contribution on frequency distribution patterns since 1900
Discussant: D. K. Tucker (Carleton U)
2:00 D.
K. Tucker (Carleton U) Irish names
in the US and Eire (Ireland) NO DISCUSSANT
2:30 Herbert Barry, III (U Pittsburgh) Male and unusual first names preferred by
Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis
Discussant: Grant Smith (E WA U)
3:00 Saundra K. Wright (CA SU-Chico) The
evolution of Ashley: The feminization of male names
Discussant: Herbert
Barry, III (U Pittsburgh
Chair: Zhonghua Li
3:30 Emma Woo Louie (San Mateo,
CA) Think dithemic for the Chinese two-character
given name!
Discussant: Li Zhonghua
4:00 Zhonghua Li (Ocean U, China) One-character given names and
two-character Chinese given names
Discussant: Emma Woo Louie (San
Mateo, CA)
4:30 Chao-chih
Liao (Ntl U-Kaohsiung) The names of streets, buildings and
landscapes in Lukang, a historic town in
Taiwan
Discussant: Mat Pires (U
Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
5:00 Jensen Chung (San Francisco SU) Ch’i in names
Discussant: Chao-chih Liao (Ntl
U-Kaohsiung)