Twentieth Century American Nicknames

Twentieth Century American Nicknames

Author: Laurence Urdang

Publisher: New York : H. W. Wilson

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Contains the nicknames of well-known people, miscellaneous items, roads, restaurants, government agencies, companies, other organizations, and equipment and weapons.


American Surnames

American Surnames

Author: Elsdon Coles Smith

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780806311500

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Surnames. We all have them, but whose names were they originally? Whose are they? What do they mean and where do they come from? Elsdon Smith, America's leading authority on names, is the one man who definitely knows, and his book, American Surnames, is designed to answer these questions and more ...


Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author: Hugh Chisholm

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 1090

ISBN-13:

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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.


Rhetorics of Names and Naming

Rhetorics of Names and Naming

Author: Star Medzerian Vanguri

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-29

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1317436059

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This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors theorize the formation, modification, and recontexualization of names as a result of technological and cultural change, and consider the ways in which naming influences identity and affects/grants power.


The History of College Nicknames, Mascots and School Colors

The History of College Nicknames, Mascots and School Colors

Author: Gary Hudson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-11-24

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1796072575

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This book explains the history behind how colleges derived their nicknames, mascots, and school colors. Gary Hudson chose to focus the attention of his book on schools that have Division 1A Football programs, because all the athletic programs at those schools will also compete in Division 1A sports. Consequently, those schools tend to get more exposure in the media, thereby drawing more attention and curiosity to the college sports fan.


Differences, Similarities and Meanings

Differences, Similarities and Meanings

Author: Nicolae-Sorin Drăgan

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3110662906

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In a world of global communication, where each one’s life depends increasingly on signs, language and communication, understanding how we relate and opening ourselves to otherness, to differences in all their forms and aspects is becoming more and more relevant. Today, we often understand the differences in terms of adversity or opposition and forget the value of the similarities. Semiotic approaches can provide a critical point of view and a more general reflection that can redefine some aspects of the discussion about the nature of these semiotic categories, differences and similarities. The dichotomy differences – similarities is fundamental to understanding the meaning-making mechanisms in language (De Saussure, 1966; Deleuze, 1995), as well as in other sign systems (Ponzio, 1995; Sebeok & Danesi, 2000). Meaning always appears in the “play of differences” (Derrida, 1978) and similarities. Therefore, the phenomena of similarities and differences must be considered complementary (Marcus, 2011). This book addresses and offers new perspectives for analyzing and understanding sensitive topics in the world of global communication (humanities education, responsive understanding of otherness, digital culture and new media power).