American Name Society
2007 Annual Meeting
Hilton Anaheim, Anaheim, California
January 4– 7, 2007
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in Carmel
Thursday, 4 January
Executive Council Meeting
Room: Monterey
12:00 – 3:30 PM
Opening Session
4:00 PM
Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue U), President Priscilla A. Ord (McDaniel C), Vice President
“Branding” People and Places
Chair: Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue U)
4:30 Saundra K. Wright (CSU-Chico): Too far beyond Jennifer & Jason? Strategies underlying celebrity baby names
5:00 Michel Nguessan (Governors SU) & Bertin Kouadio Yao (U IL-Urbana/Champaign): Ethnic groups, ethnonyms, & cartography: A study of ethnic map-making in Côte-d’Ivoire
5:30 Michel Nguessan (Governors SU) & Bertin Kouadio Yao (U IL-Urbana/Champaign): Why not standardize toponyms in Côte-d’Ivoire?
6:00 Break
Branding Things
Christine DeVinne (Ursuline C)
6:30 Christine DeVinne (Ursuline C): Naming the Goodyear blimp
7:00 Joyce E. Stavick (N GA C & SU): Veganclature: A study of the structure & politics of vegan food names
American Dialect Society/American Name Society Informal Reception
Room: Green
9:00 – 10:30 PM
Friday, 5 January
Names in Literature from Classics to Modern Fiction
Chair: Saundra K. Wright (CSU-Chico)
8:30 Marc Charron (U Québec-Outaouais): Naming in/& translation: Towards a close (transitional) reading of Don Quijote
9:00 Herbert Barry III (U Pittsburgh, Emeritus): Fictional namesakes of author, father, & mother in the novels of Charles Dickens
9:20 Lois Ann Abraham (American River C): Hemingway’s thingamajig
9:40 Cynthia Lyles-Scott (FL Atl U): A slave by any other name
10:00 Tracy R. Butts (CSU-Chico) & Saundra K. Wright (CSU-Chico): Strange fruit: The importance of naming in Jesse Fauset’s “Double Trouble” & The Chinaberry Tree
10:30 Break
Names in Works for the Young and the Young at Heart
Chair: Alleen Pace Nilsen (AZ SU)
11:00 Lindsey N. Chen (USC): A study of onoma in Disney’s Uncle Scrooge
11:30 Alleen Pace Nilsen (AZ SU) & Don L. F. Nilsen (AZ SU): The importance of names & naming practices in books written for young adults
Lunch – Interest Group Gatherings
Place: TBA
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Branding: Kemp Williams (IBM Entity Analytics/Global Name Recognition)
Literary Onomastics: Lois Ann Abraham (American River C)
Names of Places in Literature
Chair: Thomas J. Gasque (U SD, Emeritus)
2:00 Dwan L. Shipley (W WA U): An analysis of the place names used by Marcel Proust in À la recherche du temps perdu
2:30 Dorothy Dodge Robbins (LA Tech U): Mapping the heartland: Upper plains place names in Jon Hassler’s North of Hope
Forms of Address and Courtesy Titles
Chair: Michael F. McGoff (SUNY-Binghamton)
3:00 Karen A. Duchaj (NE IL U) & Jeanine Ntihirageza (NE IL U): Law & Order, “Special Victims Unit”: An ethnographic analysis of address forms
3:30 Donna L. Lillian (E Carolina U): Changing the rules: The struggle over women’s surnames & courtesy titles
4:00 Break
Naming Practices amid Multicultural Differences
Chair: Margaret G. Lee (Hampton U)
4:30 Jürgen Gerhards (Free U-Berlin), Denis Huschka (Ger Inst Econ Res-Berlin), & Gert G. Wagner (Berlin U Tech): Naming differences in divided Germany
5:00 Karen Kow Yip Cheng (U Malaya): Names in multilingual-multicultural Malaysia
American Dialect Society Word of the Year/American Name Society Name of the Year Celebration
Room: Palos Verdes
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Annual Dinner
Place: Tangerine Grill and Patio, 1030 West Katella Ave.
7:00 Social Hour
8:00 Dinner
Saturday, 6 January
Annual Business Meeting
8:30 – 9:30 AM
Chair: Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue U), President
Presidential Address
9:30 – 10:15 AM
Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue U): From Shelby to Cohen: Seventy years of popular culture influence on American given names
10:15 Break
Native American Personal Names and Naming
Chair: Priscilla A. Ord (McDaniel C)
10:30 Carol Lombard (U South Africa): Niitsitapi personal names & naming practices: A preliminary report
11:00 David D. Robertson (U Victoria): A grammar of Chinook jargon personal names
Invited Plenary Address
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Moderator: Kemp Williams (IBM Entity Analytics/Global Name Recognition)
Frank H. Nuessel (U Louisville): The study of names: Past research & future projects
Discussant: Edwin D. Lawson (SUNY-Fredonia, Emeritus)
Lunch – Interest Group Gatherings
Place: TBA
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Personal Names: Saundra K. Wright (CSU-Chico)
Place Names: Alan Rayburn (Alan Rayburn Res Associates)
Phonology in and Pronunciation of Names
Chair: Edwin D. Lawson (SUNY-Fredonia, Emeritus)
2:00 Masahiko Mutsukawa (Nanzan U): Phonological clues in Japanese given names: The masculinity of Riku & the femininity of Kanon & Karin
2:30 Grant W. Smith (E WA U): The influence of name sounds in the congressional elections of 2006
3:00 Farid Alakbarli (Azerbaijan Ntl Acad Scis), Edwin D. Lawson (SUNY-Fredonia, Emeritus), & Richard F. Shell (SUNY- Fredonia, Emeritus): Azeri names: Meaning & pronunciation on the web
3:30 Break
Historical Onomastics
Chair: Michael Adams (IN U)
4:00 Iman Makeba Laversuch (U Cologne): From mulatto to multiracial: An historical onomastic examination of the ethnoracial labels used by the U.S. Census Bureau to classify U.S. residents of African heritage
4:30 Michael Adams (IN U): Assimilation of French-Canadian names into New England speech: Notes from a Vermont cemetery
Place Names: Toponymy Interest Group Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Alan Rayburn (Alan Rayburn Res Associates)
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Executive Council Meeting
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Sunday, 7 January
Popular Culture and Given Names
Chair: Don L. F. Nilsen (AZ SU) Carmel
8:30 Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue U): From Jose Maria to Axel & Alondra: Hispanic popular culture & given names in the United States
Onomastic Studies at and from the Academy
Chair: Bruce Brown (Brigham Young U)
9:00 Cassidy Larsen (Brigham Young U), Jessica Scott (Brigham Young U), & James Wuehler (Brigham Young U): American given name markers of decade of birth, geo-location, & gender: A comparison over the past century & a half
9:30 Jonathan Decker (Brigham Young U), Michael Jenkins (Brigham Young U), Leslie E. Koenen (Brigham Young U), & Scott Irvine (Brigham Young U): Decade of birth, geo-location, & gender: A cross-cultural comparison of accuracy of identification for French, German, & Brazilian given names since 1835
10:00 Bruce Brown (Brigham Young U), Hooshang Farahnakian (Brigham Young U), Mary Farahnakian (Brigham Young U), David Gardner (Inst Study Lang & Culture), Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young U), & Matthew Spackman (Brigham Young U): Dialectal effects in the pronunciation of Farsi given names
Closing Session
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue U), President, Priscilla A. Ord (McDaniel C), Vice President