Why do we change our names? This article discusses some of the factors behind this monumental decision. ANS President Dr. Iman Nick is among the people interviewed and quoted in the article.
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Behind the Chinese names of Western brands
International brands face naming challenges translating their brand names for different markets. Learn more about the creation of Chinese names for Western brands and one agency behind this.
What’s It Like These Days for Regular People Named Trump?
What about the regular Americans – those not related to the Republican presidential nominee – with the surname Trump? Learn what this election season has been like for them.
Trump Hotels Ditching Name For New Hotels
The election is impacting in names in many ways. In one instance, Trump Hotels is launching a new brand of hotels under a new name, Scion.
Onomastic Irony…
Registration opens for the 2017 ANS Conference, Austin, TX, January 5-8, 2017
Registration is now open for the 2017 ANS Conference in Austin, TX. The ANS conference will take place in conjunction with the Linguistics Society of American (LSA) Conference from January 5-8, 2017.
To register, you must join the ANS or renew your ANS membership.
Note that to renew your ANS membership, you will be redirected to the Taylor & Francis website where you will need to enter information from your renewal notice.
Once your membership is up to date, please fill out the ANS 2017 Conference Registration Form and send the form, along with payment, to ANS Treasurer Michael McGoff, as per the instructions on the form.
For more information about the ANS Conference and the LSA Conference, including rate and hotel information, please visit our Conference Page.
ANS Information Officer featured in New York Times Vocations Column
Journalist Perry Garfinkel recently interviewed ANS Information Officer Lisa Spira (Ethnic Technologies) for Vocations, a New York Times feature in which he asks people about their jobs. Read Lisa’s interview about her interest in onomastics and work at Ethnic Technologies.
2017 Slate of Nominees for ANS Officers
The American Name Society is pleased to announce the 2017 Slate of Nominees for open ANS Officer positions. During the ANS annual meeting in Austin Texas in January, the Slate of Nominees will be formally presented to the ANS membership for the election process.
Member-at-large: Jason Chen
Jason Chen is a graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Florida. His current research focuses on language attitudes, accent perceptions, personal names, and East Asian cultures. He received his BA in English Language and Literature at Chinese Culture University in Taiwan (2008) and his MA in Linguistics from San José State University, CA (2012). During his graduate studies at San José State University, he served as the Web Master for the Linguistic Department and is therefore highly computer literate. He was awarded Outstanding Student in Linguistics at San José State University, CA in 2012. Three areas of ANS committee work that particularly interest him are streamlining the abstract review process, the ANS-ESA, and the ANS internet profile.
Information Officer: Laurel Sutton
Laurel Sutton is the founder and CEO of Catchword branding, an onomastic firm that develops product and company names for enterprises ranging from Fortune 100 to VC-backed Silicon Valley start-ups. She became a namer while in the PhD Linguistics program at UC Berkeley. She helps to run the LSA’s Special Interest Group, Linguistics Beyond Academia. She is computer literate and very familiar with WordPress, HTML, and social media platforms. An active member of the ANS, she has published her onomastic research in NAMES, presented at ANS conferences, and has co-organized a special panel, “Onomastics Beyond Academia”, with ANS President Nick. Her stated goals include improving the ANS website, expanding its communications capacities, and helping the ANS strengthen its presence on modern social media.
American Name Society Fall Newsletter
The American Name Society is pleased to share the ANS 2016 Fall Newsletter.
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Announcing “Problems of Onomastics” Volume 13, Issue 1
The Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has just announced that volume 13, Issue 1 of the academic journal, “Problems of Onomastics” (aka Voprosy onomastiki) has just been released. Covering a broad cross-section of onomastic topics, this latest volume contains English-language articles on anthroponyms of Arabic origin in Bashkir ‘Shejere’, commercial names and naming, and naming trends in contemporary Turkey.