American Name Society
2005 Annual Meeting
Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California
January 6–9, 2005
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in Room 204
Thursday, 6 January
Queer Names of Stage, Screen, and Fiction
Chair: Ronald R. Butters (Duke Univ.)
1:30 Ronald R. Butters (Duke Univ.): Fay Etrange of Kuntzville: Names in queer novels before Stonewall
2:00 Phillip Carter (NC SU): The social meaning of drag queen names
2:30 Rebecca Childs (Univ. GA): Drag kings: Creating a name in a more socially conscious performance space
3:00 Arnold M. Zwicky (Stanford Univ.): How to name a porn star
Cross-Cultural Onomastics 1
Chair: Chao-chih Liao (Ntl Univ. Kaohsiung)
4:00 Kenneth Zuercher (Univ. TX-Arlington): Personal names in Azerbaijan: A quantitative analysis
Discussant: Samira Farwaneh (Univ. AZ)
4:30 Edwin D. Lawson (SUNY-Fredonia) & Farid Alakbarov (Azerbaijan Acad Sci): Azeri Naming Patterns, 1900-2001
Discussant: Samira Farwaneh (Univ. AZ)
5:00 Uri Tadmor (Max Planck Inst-Jakarta): The unique personal names of the Kualan-Samandang of western Borneo
Discussant: Dwan Shipley (W WA Univ.)
5:30 Dwan Lee Shipley (W WA Univ.): Historical migration influences on the toponyms of Remote Oceania with specific concentration on the Fiji Islands
Discussant: Peter P. Schweitzer (Univ. AK-Fairbanks)
Friday, 7 January
Invited Plenary Address: Keynote
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Moderator: Edward Callary (N IL Univ.)
Discussant: Sheila Embleton (York Univ.)
William O. Bright (Univ. CO-Boulder): Names and naming in native northwestern California
Cross-Cultural Onomastics 2
Chair: Uri Tadmor (Max Planck Inst)
10:00 Rungpat Roengpitya (Chulalongkorn Univ.): 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 (Univ. AK-Fairbanks): Mapping the invisible: Toward a Bering Strait census of personal names
Discussant: Dwan Shipley (W WA Univ.)
11:30 Samira Farwaneh (Univ. AZ): Linguistic cues of gender perception in Arabic
Discussant: Saundra K. Wright (CSU-Chico)
African and African American Names
Chair: Herbert Barry, III (Univ. Pittsburgh)
1:00 Charles Pfukwa (Zimbabwe Open Univ.): Rewriting identities: Guerrilla nicknames in the Zimbabwean Guerrilla War (1966-1979)
Discussant: Herbert Barry, III (Univ. Pittsburgh)
1:30 Anthony C. Oha (Ambrose Alli Univ., Nigeria): Onomastic semiotization in Nigerian movies
Discussant: Bruce T. Downing (Univ. MN-Twin Cities)
Publishing and Retrieval of Onomastics
Chair: André Lapierre (Univ. Ottawa)
2:00 Roberta Arney (Univ. TX-El Paso): The Lurline H. Coltharp Collection of Onomastics
Discussant: Grant Smith (E WA Univ.)
2:30 Alan Rayburn (Independent Scholar): Corruption: Excising a pejorative word and its cognates from the onomasticon
Discussant: Donald J. Orth
3:00 Edward Callary (N IL Univ.): Should pronunciations be included in place name dictionaries?
Discussant: Elizabeth Marino (Univ. AK-Fairbanks)
3:30 Lewis L. McArthur (Portland, OR): Advances in publishing technology, placenames, and GNIS Formal and Statistical Properties of Names
Chair: Grant Smith (E WA Univ.)
4:00 Tom McClive (STG for U.S. State Dept) and Mark Arehart (AT&T for U.S. State Dept): Romanization systems, phonemic mapping, and human guesswork: The conflation and splintering of computerized non-English names
4:30 Bruce T. Downing (Univ. MN-Twin Cities): Phonological features of American English given names
Discussant: Herbert Barry, III (Univ. Pittsburgh)
5:00 Kemp Williams (Lang Analysis Sys): Entropy, word length, and cross-linguistic similarity in statistical surname classification
Saturday, 8 January
Invited Plenary Address
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Moderator: Alan Rayburn (Independent Scholar)
Discussant: Edward Callary (N IL Univ.)
Wilbur Zelinsky (PA SU): How we name our enterprises: Decoding the unwritten codes
Placenames
Chair: Donald J. Orth (US Brd Geog Names)
10:00 André Lapierre (Univ. Ottawa): Rheims, Lyons, and Marseilles: Origin, evolution, and usage
Discussant: Edward Callary (N IL Univ.)
11:00 Elizabeth Marino (Univ. AK-Fairbanks): A landscape in translation: Place names and language shift in White Mountain, AK
Discussant: TBA
11:30 Laurel Sutton (Catchword/UC-Berkeley): Cheddar is from Cheddar, except when it not: Renaming geographical indicators
Discussant: Alan Rayburn (Independent Scholar)
African American Onomastics
Chair: Herbert Barry, III (Univ. Pittsburgh)
12:30 Iman Makeba Laversuch (Univ. Freiburg/Univ. Zurich): The naming patterns of 18th-century runaway African American slaves as featured in the Virginia Gazette, 1736-1776: A corpus linguistic onomastic study
Discussant: Margaret G. Lee (Hampton Univ.)
1:00 Margaret G. Lee (Hampton Univ.): Royalty, respect, and superiority in the titles and/or nicknames of African American music artists
Discussant: Iman Makeba Laversuch (Univ. Freiburg/Univ. Zurich)
Onomastic Trends and Literary Preferences
Chair: Bruce T. Downing (Univ. MN-Twin Cities)
1:30 Denis Huschka (Ger Inst Econ Res/Free Univ. Berlin) and Gert G. Wagner (Ger Inst Econ Res/Berlin Univ. Tech): First names in Germany: An empirical study on frequency distribution patterns since 1900
Discussant: D. K. Tucker (Carleton Univ.)
2:00 D. K. Tucker (Carleton Univ.): Irish names in the US and Eire (Ireland)
2:30 Herbert Barry, III (Univ. Pittsburgh): Male and unusual first names preferred by novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis
Discussant: Grant Smith (E WA Univ.)
3:00 Saundra K. Wright (C SU-Chico): The evolution of Ashley: The feminization of male names
Discussant: Herbert Barry, III (Univ. Pittsburg)
Chinese Onomastics
Chair: Zhonghua Li (Ocean Univ., China)
3:30 Emma Woo Louie (San Mateo, CA): Comparing the Chinese two-character given name to the Anglo-Saxon dithemic name
Discussant: Zhonghua Li (Ocean Univ., China)
4:00 Zhonghua Li (Ocean Univ. , China): One-character given names and two-character Chinese given names
Discussant: Emma Woo Louie (San Mateo, CA)
4:30 Chao-chih Liao (Ntl Univ. Kaohsiung): The names of streets, buildings, and landscapes in Lukang, a historic town in Taiwan
Discussant: TBA
5:00 Jensen Chung (San Francisco SU): Ch’i and shih in names
Discussant: Chao-chih Liao (Ntl Univ. Kaohsiung)