American Name Society
Annual Meeting 2014
Minneapolis Hilton
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Executive Committee Meeting
Room: Board Room 2
Time: 3:00 – 6:00 PM
Sister Societies Meet and Greet Reception
Sky Water Restaurant, Minneapolis Hilton
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 PM
Friday, January 3
Morning
| Time | Board Room 2 | Board Room 3 | ||
| 8:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chair: Donna L. Lillian (Appalachian State University) |
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| 9:00 | Names and Academia | Names and Place I | ||
| Chair: | Michael McGoff (Binghamton University) | Chair: | Priscilla Ord (McDaniel College) | |
| 9:00 | Frank Nuessel (University of Louisville)
Sheri Spaine Long (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) A Step-by-Step Mini-Workshop for Submission to Scholarly Journals |
9:00 | Dwan Lee Shipley (Western Washington University)
A Cursory Journey through a Compendium of Place Names in the Doomsday Book of England.
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| 9:30 | Yaw Sekyi-Baidoo (The University of Education, Winneba)
Tease-naming Traditions: A Study of Two Secondary Schools in Ghana |
9:30 | Paul Peterson (University of Minnesota)
Old Norse Nicknames as Linguistic Evidence |
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| 10:00-10:15 | BREAK | BREAK | ||
| 10:15 | Names and Crime | Names and Origins | ||
| Chair: | Lisa Radding (Ethnic Technologies) | Chair: | Donna L. Lillian (Appalachian State University) | |
| 10:15 | Iman Nick (University of Cologne)
In the Name of the Führer: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of First Names Given Lebensborn Children within Nazi-Germany |
10:15 | Priscilla Ord (McDaniel College)
The Origin [of the Name] of the [Genus and the] Species: Honoring Actors, Musicians, and other well-known Personalities |
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| 10:45 | Brad Wilcox (Brigham Young University)
Sharon Black (Brigham Young University) Brad Platt (Arizona State Prison) Nicknames in Prison: Meaning and Manipulation of Inmates’ Monikers |
10:45 | Cleveland Evans (Bellevue University)
The Story of Hank and Chuck: The Development of Two Short Forms |
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| 11:15-11:30 | BREAK | BREAK | ||
| 11:30 | Names of the Year Selection | |||
| Chair: | Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University) | |||
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch Break
Personal/ Literary Names Interest Group Lunches (Place & Leaders TBA) |
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Friday, January 3
Afternoon
| Time | Board Room 2 | Board Room 3 | ||
| 2:00 | Keynote Address:
Brendan Fairbanks University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Ojibwe Name Giving Chair: Iman Nick (University of Cologne) |
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| 3:00-3:15 | BREAK | BREAK | ||
| 3:15 | Names and Patterns I | Names and Place II | ||
| Chair: | Iman Nick (University of Cologne)
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Chair: | Dorothy Robbins (Louisiana Tech University) | |
| 3:15 | Steven Liddle, Stephen Watjen, and
Kemp Williams (IBM Corporation) Improved Name Search Using Optimized Bitmap Signatures |
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| 3:45 | Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria)
Officially Bilingual? The French and English Odonyms of Toronto and Montreal |
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| 4:30-5:30 | Names and Europe | 4:30-5:30 | Names and Asia I | |
| Chair: | Brad Wilcox (Brigham Young University) | Chair: | Dwan Lee Shipley (Western Washington University) | |
| 4:30 | Anja Bruhn (University of Potsdam and German Data Forum)
Labor Market and Given Names in Germany |
4:30 | Enkhbat Dashdondog (National University of Mongolia)
Socio-cultural Factors in Naming Mongolians |
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| 5:00 | Anja Bruhn (University of Potsdam and German Data Forum)
Denis Huschka (German Institute for Economic Research) Gert Wagner (German Institute for Economic Research) Socio-economic Patterns as Context for Given Names Choices in Germany |
5:00 | Giancarla Unser-Schutz (Rissho University)
Selecting Data on Names: City Newsletters as a Resource for Japanese Names Research |
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| 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Words of the Year Vote (with American Dialect Society)
Room: Symphony II/III
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Saturday, January 4
Morning
| Time | Board Room 2 | |
| 8:30 | Names and Asia II | |
| Chair: | Lisa Radding (Ethnic Technologies) | |
| 8:30 | Yi-An Jason Chen (University of Florida)
How Taiwanese Pet Owners Choose Names for their Dogs |
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| 9:30 | BREAK | |
| 9:45 | Names and Africa | |
| Chair: | Kemp Williams (IBM Corporation) | |
| 9:45 | Bertie Neethling (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Could Xhosa Personal Name-giving be Considered a part of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) |
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| 10:15 | Oluwadamilare Atolagbe (Nigerian Institute of Public Relations)
A Morphological Analysis of the Structure of Yoruba Personal Names |
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| 10:45 | Yaw Sekyi-Baidoo (The University of Education, Winneba)
Delexicalization and Proper Names |
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| 11:15 | BREAK | |
| 11:30 | 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 4
Afternoon
| Time | Board Room 2 | |
| 1:30 | Names and Literature | |
| Chair: | Priscilla Ord (McDaniel College) | |
| 1:30 | Kenneth Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
Contemporary Authors: The Naming of Their Fictional Characters and Places |
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| 2:00 | Michael Adams (Indiana University at Bloomington)
The Course of a Particular: Names and Narrative in the Works of Joseph Mitchell |
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| 2:30 | Donna L. Lillian (Appalachian State University)
Lorelei Logsdon (East Carolina University) Girl Characters’ Name-Numbers in ‘The Ozark Trilogy’ |
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| 3:00-3:15 | BREAK | |
| 3:15 | Names and Women | |
| Chair: | Ernest L. Abel (Wayne State University) | |
| 3:15 | Dorothy Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
R is for Rebecca: A Consonant and Consummate Haunting |
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| 3:45 | Lorelei Logsdon (East Carolina University)
Trends in English Transparent Virtue Names |
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| 4:15 | Herbert Barry III (University of Pittsburgh)
Aylene S. Harper (Community College of Alleghany County, Pennsylvania) Gender Differentiation of Final Letters in Personal Names |
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| 4:45-5:30 | BREAK | |
| 5:30-6:30 | ANS Executive Committee Meeting |
| 7:30-10:00 | ANS Conference Dinner
Sky Water Restaurant Minneapolis Hilton 1001 Marquette Ave S., Minneapolis |