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Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. This book illustrates the intersection of names and naming with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, ritual, and daily social life

Gilt ein unter turbulenten Umständen entlassener Klinikgeschäftsführer als Privatmann? Oder hat die Öffentlichkeit und damit die Gesundheitsbranche ein Recht darauf, seinen Namen aus der Presse zu erfahren?

Name signs have existed in Greek Deaf culture since antiquity. However, little is known about Greek Sign Language (GSL) and the Greek Deaf community. Based on interviews with 200 people, the phonological characteristics of Greek name signs are described, as well as the frequency of occurrence of specific name signs and the influence of spoken Greek. Comparisons are made with American Sign Language and the naming process in general Greek culture. The Greek Deaf community uses both types of name signs, descriptive name signs (DNS) and arbitrary name signs (ANS). The most popular form of naming uses the DNS process. Name signs are not passed down within families but are assigned by members of the Deaf community or by Deaf peers in the educational setting. Once a name sign has been assigned it stays with the recipient, usually for life. Traditionally, most name signs describe personal characteristics, but with many hearing people now learning GSL, initialized signs are appearing. Whether the Greek Deaf community will accept this practice remains uncertain.

Magic and religion.--Mana in tangible things.--Mana in intangible things.--Mana in words.--The name and the soul.

Name-based discrimination is a continuing reality faced by ethnic minorities in Canada, regardless of their Canadian or foreign credentials.

Death is That Man Taking Names Robert A. Burt (Berkeley: University of California Press; New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002)

The economy has an increasingly powerful role in the contemporary global world. Academic scholars who study names have recognised this, and, as such, onomastic research has expanded from personal and place names towards names that reflect the new commercial culture. Companies are aware of the significance of naming. Brand, product and company names play an important role in business. Culture produces names and names produce culture. Commercial names shape cultures, on the one hand, and chang

Drawing on corpora from West Africa and Iceland, the article presents a fieldwork-based comparative exploration of 'things that place names do'. Treating toponyms as performative elements of culture, we have observed striking parallels as well as differences in the uses of place names in both regions. Place names communicate spatial orientation; play an important role in the commemoration of people and events; mark claims of possession; support the construction of identity; sacralize landscapes; and voice moral reprimands. They can provide entertainment, by, for instance, inscribing ridicule into the land. They subvert as well as affirm hierarchies and power structures, and even play a role in interethnic conflict. Equally, they can become nuclei of storytelling, providing starting points for the invention of narratives. Showing the range of functions that place names can assume in two very different geographical contexts, the article presents a heuristic illustration of the potential of fieldwork-based approaches for toponomastic research.

This research examines concentration and similarity in the first name distributions of African Americans and whites resident in Mississippi in 1910. Data are drawn from the Public Use Sample of the 1910 Census, with names added from microfilm copies of original Census manuscripts. We find little difference in the degree of concentration of the name distributions and only modest dissimilarity in name choice. Multivariate analysis using age as a proxy for period of name assignment (birth cohort) indicates that racial differentiation in name choice increased over the period 1870 to 1910 primarily as a result of changes in the name choices of whites. We discuss these results in conjunction with the recent work of Lieberson and Bell (1992) on contemporary racial differences in naming patterns. Lieberson and Bell (1992) argue that African Americans in the contemporary period emphasize group differences by choosing "African" or "African sounding" names. In Mississippi in the period between the abolition of slavery and 1910, we argue that whites distanced themselves from African Americans by choosing increasingly the "whitest" names (e.g., those disproportionately chosen by whites). Changing naming patterns are not orchestrated group responses. Instead, they reflect emergent cultural responses to fundamental social change.

Einstellung der Verbraucher zur Preisbindung bei Markenartikeln.

Themen: Die Meinungen des Verbrauchers wurden einmal spontan
ermittelt (vor der Diskussion einzelner Argumente) und noch einmal am
Ende des Interviews, nachdem der Befragte zahlreiche Gesichtspunkte
der einen und der anderen Seite kennengelernt hatte: Marken- und
Preisbewußtsein; Charakteristika von Markenartikeln;
Einkaufsgewohnheiten; Vorhandensein eines Stammgeschäfts und eines
persönlichen Verhältnisses zum Verkäufer; Erledigung von Einkäufen
durch Kinder; Nutzung von Ausverkaufsangeboten; Beurteilung der
Chancengleichheit; Schätzung der Lebenshaltungskosten einer
vierköpfigen Familie; Zukunftserwartung; Parteipräferenz;
Schichtzugehörigkeit.

Demographie: Bundesland; Flüchtlingsstatus; Ortsgröße; Konfession;
Geschlecht; Alter (klassiert); Schulbildung; Berufsausbildung;
Berufstätigkeit; Beruf; Haushaltsgröße; Haushaltszusammensetzung;
Familienstand; Einkommen (klassiert); Haushaltseinkommen (klassiert);
Haushaltungsvorstand; Mitgliedschaft; Besitz langlebiger
Wirtschaftsgüter.

Interviewerrating: Wochentag des Interviews; Interviewdauer;
Uhrzeit des Interviewendes.

Les premières oppositions aux noms de domaines étaient principalement résolues par des demandes d'injonctions aux tribunaux. Pour obtenir ce redressement, les opposants argumentaient que l'utilisation d'un nom de domaine enfreignait un droit privé. Aujourd'hui, la plupart des conflits au sujet des noms de domaines sont résolus en ayant recours à une pratique de règlement des conflits mise en place par contrat lors de l'enregistrement des noms de domaines. Les droits des deux parties sont soupesés soigneusement dans la politique pertinente et une décision écrite est requise lors de la formation du panel. Quel est le statut d'une telle décision vis-à-vis d'une intervention du tribunal ultérieure une fois le processus de règlement extrajudiciaire des conflits achevé? Le tribunal a-t-il la juridiction de traiter une dispute de novo en raison de l'adoption d'une déclaration? L'application des principes traditionnels de l'attaque indirecte et de l'issue estoppel pour une même question de droit administratif en litige n'appuient pas de novo l'intervention judiciaire. Les principes de droit administratif pour le contrôle judiciaire des décisions du tribunal n'appuient donc manifestement pas les interventions judiciaires. ; Abstract: Early domain name challenges were primarily resolved by application to the courts for an injunction. To obtain this relief, challengers argued that the use of the domain name infringed a private law right. Today, most current domain name disputes are resolved by recourse to a dispute resolution policy set up by contract at the time a domain name is registered. The rights of both parties are carefully balanced in the relevant policy and a written decision is required of the panel. What is the status of such a decision after completion of the alternate dispute resolution process vis-à-vis subsequent court intervention? Does a court have jurisdiction to hear the dispute de novo by way of an application for declaration? Application of traditional administrative law principles of collateral attack and issue estoppel do not support de novo judicial intervention. Nor do the administrative law principles for judicial review of consensual tribunal decisions clearly support court intervention.