American Name Society Annual Meeting – 2015
Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
Portland, Oregon
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Executive Committee Meeting
Salon Ballroom II: 3:00 – 6:00 PM
Friday, January 9
Morning
| Time | Salon Ballroom II | Salon Ballroom III | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chair: Donna L. Lillian (Appalachian State University) |
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| 9:30-11:00 | Names and Literature I | Names and Place I | ||
| Chair: | Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria) | Chair: | Michael McGoff (Binghamton University) | |
| 9:30 | Dwan Lee Shipley (Western Washington University)
A Linguistic and Historical Comparative Analysis of Acadian Place Names in Canada and the United States
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| 10:00 | Grant Smith (Eastern Washington University)
Names as Signs in The Taming of the Shrew |
10:00 | David Robertson (University of Victoria)
Naming Chinook Jargon |
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| 10:30 | Christine Devinne (Notre Dame of Maryland University)
The Dickens you say: Names in household words |
10:30 | Peter Jordan (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
The Endonym: A Social-geographical Approach to an Iridescent Term |
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| 11:00-11:30 | BREAK | BREAK | ||
| 11:30-12:45 | Names of the Year Selection
Chair: Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University) |
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| 12:45-2:00 | LUNCH BREAK | LUNCH BREAK | ||
| Personal/ Literary Names Interest Group Lunches (Place and Leaders TBA) | ||||
Friday, January 9
Afternoon
| Time | Salon Ballroom II | Salon Ballroom III | ||
| 2:00 | Presidential Address: Donna L. Lillian (Appalachian State University)
Chair: Carol Lombard (University of the Free State) |
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| 3:00-3:15 | BREAK | BREAK | ||
| 3:15 | Names and Time | Names and Place III | ||
| Chair: | Christine Devinne (Notre Dame of Maryland University)
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Chair: | Dwan Lee Shipley (Western Washington University) | |
| 3:15 | Anja Collazo (Kyoto University)
A Diachronic Look at Japanese First Names |
3:15 | Konrad Rybka (University of Amsterdam)
Place names and Places: An Exploration of a Lokono Place-naming System |
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| 3:45 | Maryann Parada (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Name ethnicity as a factor in perceptions of U.S. Latinos’ Spanish language abilities |
3:45 | Rosamond Rodman (California State University, Northridge)
Biblical Placenames: ScriptuRalizing the U.S. |
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| 4:15 | Cleve Evans (Bellevue University)
The Uniqueness of Utah Names: An Update After 14 Years |
4:15 | Luisa Caiazzo (University of Naples )
Plotting Identity and Subjectivity: The Bombay/Mumbai Naming Controversy |
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| 4:45-5:00 | BREAK | 4:45-5:00 | BREAK | |
| 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Words of the Year Vote (with American Dialect Society)
Room: Skyline I
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Saturday, January 10
Morning
| Time | Salon Ballroom 1I | Salon Ballroom III | |||
| 8:30-9:30 | Names and Gender | Names, Ethnicity, and Origins I | |||
| Chair: | Priscilla Ord (McDaniel College) | Chair: | Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria) | ||
| 8:30 | Herbert Barry III (University of Pittsburgh)
The Masculine Ending of Name of Wife of The USA Presidents |
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| 9:00 | Yi-An Jason Chen (University of Florida)
The Rise and Fall of Female Personal Names in Taiwan: 1980-2013 |
9:00 | Michel Nguessan (Governors State University)
Sidiki Bamba (Université FHB de Cocody, Côte-d’Ivoire) Disambiguation of Personal Names Among the Baoulé and the Malinké of Cote-d’Ivoire |
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| 9:30-9:45 | BREAK | 9:30-9:45 | BREAK | ||
| 9:45-11:15 | Names and Literature III | 9:45-11:15 | Names, Ethnicity, and Origins II | ||
| Chair: | Carol Lombard (University of the Free State) | Chair: | Lisa Radding (Ethnic Technologies) | ||
| 9:45 | Olav Veka (Hamar University College)
Scandinavian Surnames in the US: Do They Convey a National Origin? |
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| 10:15 | Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
The Biographer’s Tale: A Taxonomy of Names and Namers |
10:15 | Michel Nguessen (Governors State University)
The Traditional Concept of Family Among the Baoulé of Cote-d’Ivoire |
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| 10:45 | Nancy Coleman (Hamar katedralskole)
Given Names from Norse Mythology
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| 11:15-11:30 | BREAK | 11:15-11:30 | BREAK | ||
| 11:30-12:30 | ANS Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation
Chair: Donna L. Lillian (Appalachian State University) |
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| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch Break
Trade Names/ Place Names Interest Group Lunches (Place and Leaders TBA) |
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Saturday, January 10
Afternoon
| Time | Ballroom II | Ballroom III | ||
| 1:30-2:30 | Guest Lecture: Jennifer Moss (BabyNames.com)
How the Internet has changed Baby Naming Chair: Iman Nick (University of Cologne) |
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| 2:30-2:45 | BREAK | BREAK | ||
| 2:45-3:15 | Names and Products I | Names and Academia | ||
| Chair: | Michael McGoff (Binghamton University) | Chair: | Donna Lillian (Appalachian State University) | |
| 2:45 | Carol Lombard (University of the Free State)
The Socio-onomastic Role of American Cattle Brands: A Regional Case Study |
2:45 | Meilin Zhan (University of California, San Diego)
Chinese Students and their English/Anglicized Names |
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| 3:15 | James Major (Northeastern Illinois University)
Racial Phylogeny: Fantasy naming conventions in video games |
3:15 | Iman Nick (University of Cologne).
I would never give my child that name!: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Modern German University Students’ Perceptions of Names Popular During the Third Reich |
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| 3:45-4:00 | BREAK | 3:45-4:00 | BREAK | |
| 4:00-5:30 | Names and Products II | 4:00 | ||
| Chair: | Kemp Williams (IBM Corporation)
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| 4:00 | Nancy Friedman (Wordworking.com)
Christopher Johnson (The Name Inspector) Namifying Trendily: Why Startup businesses Choose Copycat Names |
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| 4:30 | Laurel Sutton (catchwordbranding.com)
Dr Pepper, Dr Skipper, and Dr Bob: The Rise of Private Label Soda Brands |
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| 5:00 | Nancy Friedman (Wordworking.com)
Velvet Elvis at the Mary Mart: The New-Normal Nomenclature of Legal Cannabis |
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| 5:30-5:45 | BREAK | |||
| 5:45-6:45 | ANS Executive Committee Meeting | |||
| 7:30-10:00 | ANS Conference Dinner
Mother’s Bistro & Bar, 212 SW Stark Street |
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