{"product_id":"9781443860130","title":"Unconventional Anthroponyms: Formation Patterns and Discursive Function","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnconventional Anthroponyms: Formation Patterns and Discursive Function continues a series of collective volumes comprising studies on onomastics, edited by Oliviu Felecan with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Previous titles in this series include Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (2012) and Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space (2013, co-edited with Alina Bughesiu).In contemporary naming practice, one can distinguish two verbal (linguistic) means of nominal referential identification: -a natural one, which occurs in the process of conventional, official, canonical, standard naming and results in conventional\/official\/canonical\/standard anthroponyms. -a motivated one, which occurs in the process of unconventional, unofficial, uncanonical, non-standard naming and results in unconventional\/unofficial\/uncanonical\/non-standard anthroponyms.The significance of an official name is arbitrary, conventional, unmotivated, occasional and circumstantial, as names are not likely to carry any intrinsic meaning; names are given by third parties (parents, godparents, other relatives and so on) with the intention to individualise (to differentiate from other individuals). Any meaning with which a name might be endowed should be credited to the name giver: s\/he assigns several potential interpretations to the phonetic form of choice, based on his\/her aesthetic and cultural options and other kinds of tastes, which are manifested at a certain time.Unconventional anthroponyms (nicknames, bynames, user names, pseudonyms, hypocoristics, individual and group appellatives that undergo anthroponymisation) are nominal derivatives that result from a name giver's wish to attach a specifying\/defining verbal (linguistic) tag to a certain individual. An unconventional anthroponym is a person's singular signum, which may convey a practical necessity (to avoid anthroponymic homonymy: the existence of several bearers for a particular name) or the intention to qualify a certain human type (to underline specific difference-in this case, the unconventional anthroponym has an over-individualising role-or, on the contrary, to mark an individual's belonging to a class, his\/her association with other individuals with whom s\/he is typologically related-see the case of generic unconventional anthroponyms).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge Scholars Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015118340336,"sku":"9781443860130","price":101.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781443860130_p0.jpg?v=1763813620","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781443860130","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}