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Onomastics between sacred and profane /

Religiously, God is the creator of everything seen and unseen; thus, one can ascribe to Him the names of His creation as well, at least in their primordial form. In the mentality of ancient Semitic peoples, naming a place or a person meant determining the role or fate of the named entity, as names w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Felecan, Oliviu (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wilmington, Delaware, United States : Vernon Press, [2019]
Colección:Series in language and linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • God's divine names in the Qur'aan: al-asmaa' el-husna / Wafa Abu Hatab
  • Planning the name of God and the Devil. A short route, between the sacred and the profane, in linguistic creativity. Looking for some constant logical primary pattern / Davide Astori
  • Names of gods and goddesses in old Romanian culture / Gheorghe Chivu
  • Theoretical outlook on the sacred and the profane in first names / Daiana Felecan
  • The name giver / Alexandra Gafton, Adina Chirilă
  • Names of sects: between the unusual and manipulation / Artur Galkowski
  • Onomastic configurations within Japanese Shintoism / Leo Loveday
  • The deity concept among the amaXhosa of South Africa / Bertie Neethling
  • Some considerations on Jewish names of monotheism's only deity / Ephraim Nissan
  • Prayers in place names / Vladislav Alpatov
  • Transylvanian oikonyms between sacred and profane. Etymological hypotheses and onomasiological framework / Nicolae Felecan
  • Transylvanian oikonyms and hodonyms: between sacred and profane / Oliviu Felecan
  • Ethnophaulic toponyms in the United States / Frank Nuessel
  • Restoration of urbanonyms with sacred allusions in the system of urban object names in the Russian language of the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century / Roman Razumov, Sergey Goryaev
  • The "profane" and the "sacred" in the major toponymy of the Ehro River Basin (Spain) / Joan Tort-Donada
  • Sacred and profane in toponyms : settlement names formed from patrociny and personal names in Hungarian / Valéria Tóth
  • Secularization of sacred anthroponyms in modem Ndebele and Shona communities / Sambulo Ndlovu, Tendai Mangena
  • Theonymy in anthroponymy: a socio-pragmatic study of selected Yoruba African religious names / Idowu Odebode
  • Connections of the sacred and profane in the history of Hungarian given names / Mariann Slíz, Tamás Farkas
  • Naming and renaming as sociocultural signification in Bukusu and Shona cultures / Solomon Waliaula, Tendai Mangena
  • Sacred aspects of names in the context of place branding / Angelika Bergien
  • The influence of the Kalevala on Finnish commercial naming / Paula Sjöblom
  • Names of natural pharmaceutical products / Mihaela Munteanu Siserman
  • Semantics of names of tarot cards between sacred and profane / Alina Bugheşiu
  • Onomastic wordplay in Roman-age to medieval rabbinic biblical exegesis, and beyond / Ephraim Nissan
  • Profane in literary anthroponomastics (based on S. Townsend's Adrian Mole diary series) / Anna Tsepkova.