A PDF of the program is available for download here.
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Thursday, January 2, 2020
Room: Steering
3:00-6:00pm Executive Committee Meeting
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Friday, January 3, 2020
Room: Steering
Conference Opening Address
8:00-8:15 Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University), Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30-10:00 Names in Graphic, Comic, & Young Adult Fiction
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
8:15 Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University): Onomastic connections in Joann Sfar’s The Rabbi’s Cat
8:45 Mark Peters (Independent Scholar, Chicago, IL, USA): Baron Von Evilstein, Granny Goodness, and Morticoccus: A taxonomy of comic book creator Jack Kirby’s Names
9:15 Lauren Guillory (Louisiana Tech University): Nomenclature and the structure of society in Lois Lowry’s The Giver
10:15-11:30 Literary Names & Semantics
CHAIR: Ken Robbins (Louisiana Tech University, USA)
10:30 Arpi Movsesian (University of California Santa Barbara, USA): “Wisdom” and “The Man of God”: The semantics of Dostoevsky’s proper names in Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov
11:00 Shoshana Milgram Knapp (Virginia Tech, USA): Signaling villainy through subtle semantic connotations: Ayn Rand’s use of negative personal names
11:30-12:30 Names of the Year Selection (Steering)
CHAIR: Cleveland Evans (Bellevue University)
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 Literary Names: Irish & Caribbean Connections
CHAIR: Christine De Vinne (Ursuline College, Ohio, USA)
1:30 Christine De Vinne (Ursuline College, Ohio, USA): Nameless by design: The effects of anonymity in Ann Burns’s Milkman
2:30 Kate Brennan (University of Toronto, Canada): Semantic relations and personal names in literature: Naming as authority
3:15-4:45 Politics, Culture, & Names
CHAIR: Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria, Italy)
3:15 Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria, Italy): This is Blockadia: A corpus-assisted analysis of environmental activism on social media
3:45 Jerrilyn McGregory (Florida State University, USA): “PRONOUNCE IT LIKE IT SOUNDS”: Black popular culture’s devaluation of African American personal names
4:15 Joseph Smita (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India): A comparative study of the personal names of Telugu Catholics and Syrian Christians of Kerala
6:30-8:00 Film Premier (Steering)
CHAIR: Laurel Sutton (Catchword Branding, California, USA)
Nware Rahsaan Burge (Kean University, Union, New Jersey, USA) DNA: Using Genealogy to Change My SLAVE Last Name
Room: Bridge
8:15-9:45 Name Brand Entertainment
CHAIR: Jason Yi An Chen (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
8:15 Jason Yi An Chen (Indiana University Bloomington, USA): Linguistic and cultural adaptation of Chinese film title translations
8:45 Tao Ma (Shanghai Sanda University, China): A balance between creativeness and usability: Semantic patterns to registers among application software names
9:15 James Butler (Lancaster University, UK): Mapping Literary Namescapes: Representing Fictional Cartographies through Space and Time
10:00-11:00 Place Names: Original & Revised
CHAIR: Edward Callary (Northern Illinois University, USA)
10:00 Edward Callary (Northern Illinois University, USA): Texas: A challenge to the origin of the name
10:30 Brittnee Leysen-Ross (University of Glasgow, Scotland): Cognitive toponymy: Establishing a sense of place in the Central Otago goldfields
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 Julianys, Jared, Janvier: J Names!
CHAIR: Maryann Parada (California State University Bakersfield, USA)
1:30 Maryann Parada and Lena Taub Robles (California State University Bakersfield, USA): Julianys and Jadiel: The innovative and emblematic -/is/ and -/jel/ trends across three decades of Puerto Rican naming
2:00 Richard D. Janda (University of Illinois Bloomington, USA): From Jared to Jharredd & 220 others: On orthographic exuberance & onomatophagia
2:30 Marielle Côté-Gendreau (McGill University & Université de Montréal, Canada): Awareness of cognates revealed through the naming calendar: Janviers born in January in Ancient Quebec
3:15-4:45 Trends in Naming Children
CHAIR: Laurel Sutton (Catchword Branding, California, USA)
3:15 Jong-Mi Kim (Kwangwan National University, Korea): Naming and cross-cultural trends: Historical evidence of linguistic and cultural feature changes in Korean names, 1940-2017
3:45 Marielle Côté-Gendreau (McGill University & Université de Montréal, Canada): Expansion of stocks of first names, decrease of parent-to-child transmission and rise of multiple naming in Ancient Quebec: What came first?
4:15 Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht University, the Netherlands): The emergence of Zipf’s law in fashionable names
4:45-5:00 Break
5:00-6:30 Words of the Year/Decade Vote with the American Dialect Society
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Saturday, January 4, 2020
Room: Steering
8:30-10:00 Family Names in American Fiction
CHAIR: Ken Robbins (Louisiana Tech University, USA)
8:30 Ken Robbins (Louisiana Tech University, USA): “Call me Shane”: Names as intensifiers in Jack Schaefer’s tale
9:00 Jeanne C. Ewert (University of Florida, USA): Faulkner’s “lumber room” of allusions and etymology: Onomastics in As I Lay Dying
9:30 Kimberly Tucker (Louisiana Tech University, USA): Slighting the family name: Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”
10:15-11:00 Lyrical Names/Names in Lyrics
CHAIR: Laurel Sutton (Catchword Branding, California, USA)
10:15 Stephen da Silva (Ursuline Academy of Dallas, Texas, USA): Re-Naming and the Paradoxes of Power in Forster’s Libretto to Billy Budd
10:45 Karen Duchaj (Northeastern Illinois University, USA): Stressed syllable constraints on English names in pop music: Evidence from Lennon and McCartney
12:00 -12:30 Names & the Law
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University, USA)
12:00 Derek Warden (Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA, USA): Through the lens of due process: An historical introduction to the relationship between law and names
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 Keynote Speech: Roots to Routes: Naming an American Radio Program
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University, USA)
Nick Spitzer (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA)
3:15-4:45 Names in British Literature
CHAIR: Grant Smith (Eastern Washington University, USA)
3:15 Grant Smith (Eastern Washington University: USA): The linguistic mix of names in Love’s Labor Lost
4:15 Victoria Axton (Louisiana Tech University, USA): Bella/Victoria’s beautiful victory: An onomastic feminist study of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things
5:00-6:00 ANS Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation
Room: Bridge
8:30-10:00 French, Spanish, & Louisianan Names
CHAIR: Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University, Nebraska, USA)
8:30 Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University, Nebraska, USA): Pelican state babies: The top 100 given names in Louisiana, 1960-2017, compared with national figures
9:00 Richard Winters (The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA): Three Spanish surnames in French-speaking Louisiana
9:30 Marielle Côté-Gendreau (McGill University & Université de Montréal, Canada): Tracking Napoleon, his name and his myth in 19th century Quebec: Sociodemographic approach to a revealing naming trend
10:15-10:45 African Place Names
CHAIR: Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria, Italy)
10:15 Zvinashe Mamvura (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany): Selective re-membering or selective forgetting? Streetscape and power in Zimbabwe
12:00-1:00 Names & the Medical Field
Chair: Jason Yi An Chen (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
12:00 Brian King (University of Hong Kong): Names & keywords as “rich points”: The case of biomedical naming practices and intersex bodies
12:30 Osward Chanda (Central European University, Hungary): Safeguarding cultural heritage through personal and place names: Raising awareness through Zambian educational institutions and community
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
3:15-4:15 Names in the Work Place
CHAIR: Luisa Caiazzo (University of Basilicata, Italy)
3:15 Catarina Saracco (University of Genoa, Italy): When you cannot say you are hungry: Leo Spitzer and the proper names of hunger in Italian
3:45 Brandon Simonson (Boston University, Massachusetts, USA): Ancient personal names in transliteration and translation: The case of Aramaic names in Syria and Mesopotamia
7:00pm ANS Conference Dinner
Grand Isle Restaurant
575 Convention Center Blvd
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Sunday, January 5, 2020
Room: Steering
8:00-9:00 ANS Executive Council Meeting