American Name Society
2006 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency Hotel/Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
January 5–8, 2006
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in Fiesta 3-4 (Hyatt Regency)
Thursday, 5 January
Executive Council Meeting
Room: Board E (Hyatt Regency)
1:00 – 3:30 PM
Opening Session
4:00 PM
Cleveland Evans, President (Bellevue U), Priscilla A. Ord, Vice President (BookPerson, Inc.)
Beginning at the Beginning with Babies
Chair: Thomas J. Gasque (U SD, Emeritus)
4:30 PM
Cleveland Evans (Bellevue U): How to write a baby name book
European Naming Patterns
Chair: Edwin D. Lawson (SUNY -Fredonia, Emeritus)
5:00 Eddy Plasquy (Catholic U-Leuven): Rocío: A “booming” pilgrimage & a “hip” name in an Andalusian village
5:30 Cynthia L. Hallen (Brigham Young U): Swedish personal names in Ljustorps Parish, 1500-1800
6:00 Zuzana Tomková (U Chicago): Personal names & nicknames in Lubeník, Slovakia
6:30 Edwin D. Lawson (SUNY-Fredonia, Emeritus): Estonian naming patterns, 1887-1991
Onomastic Theory
Chair: Michael F. McGoff (SUNY-Binghamton)
7:00 Grant Smith (E WA U): A semiotic theory of names
Informal Reception
Room: Sage (Hyatt Regency)
9:00 – 10:30 PM
Friday, 6 January
Automation and Terminology
Chair: André Lapierre (U Ottawa)
8:30 Kemp Williams (Lang Analysis Systems, Inc.): Improving the accuracy of automated personal name extraction
9:00 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
9:30 André Lapierre (University of Ottawa): Cape Francis or French Cape?: Revisiting Huguenot toponmy in 16th century Florida
Words, Pronunciation, and Phonological Clues
Chair: Saundra K. Wright (CSU-Chico)
10:00 Alan Rayburn (Alan Rayburn Res Assocs): Corruption: Excising a pejorative word & its cognates from future onomastic publications
10:20 Edward Callary (N IL U): Should pronunciation be included in placename dictionaries?
10:40 Saundra K. Wright (CSU-Chico): The masculinity of Zep: Phonological cues predict gender of novel names
Invited Plenary Address
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Moderator: Christine DeVinne (Ursuline C)
Emma Woo Louie (Independent Scholar, San Mateo, CA): Some observances on Chinese given names
Discussants: Edwin D. Lawson (SUNY-Fredonia, Emeritus), Chao-chih Liao (Ntl Chiayi U)
Personal or Given Names in Cultural Contexts
Chair: Ashley M. Williams (U MI/SE LA U)
2:00 Zofia Kaleta (U Leuven): A picture of society from the perspective of personal names: A socio-onomastic study
2:30 Sergey Garagulya (E WA U/Belgorod Shukhov State Tech U): Personal names in the toponymic system of the U. S.
3:00 Karen Kow Yip Cheng (U Malaya): Names in multilingual-multicultural Malaysia
3:30 Ashley M. Williams (U MI/SE LA U): Bilingual naming practices & the indexing of Chinese American identity
Literary Onomastics
Chair: Lois Ann Abraham (Amer River C)
4:00 Phong V. Nguyen (U WI-Madison): Naming the trees: Literary onomastics in Susan Warner’s The wide, wide world
4:30 Alleen P. Nilsen (AZ SU) & Don L. F. Nilsen (AZ SU): Lemony Snicket’s A series of unfortunate events as an illustration of the humorous use of names for a dual audience
5:00 Lois Ann Abraham (Amer River C): The role of naming in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair
Annual American Name Society Dinner
Place: La Placita Dining Rooms, Old Town
7:00 Social Hour
8:00 Dinner
Speaker: Robert H. Julyan (Independent Scholar, Albuquerque, NM)
Author of Mountain names (1984), The place names of New Mexico (1996, 1999, 2001), Place names of the White Mountains (1993), as well as Best hikes with children in New Mexico (2004), New Mexico’s Continental Divide Trail (2001), and New Mexico’s wilderness areas (1999)
Saturday, 7 January
Annual Business Meeting
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Chair: Cleveland Evans, President (Bellevue U)
Brand Names, Branding, and Complimentary Nicknames
Chair: Laurel A. Sutton (Catchword/UC-Berkeley)
9:00 Peter Manasantivongs (Lexicon Branding, Inc.): Factors influencing the optional use of tonal markers in foreign brand names transliterated into Thai
9:30 Julia Kuhn (Vienna U Econ & Business Admin): Ergonymics & history
10:00 Arthur M. Navarro (U Philippines-Manila): Between kinship & the state: Popular naming of post-people power presidents of the Philippines
10:20 Ben Larson (York C): Naming in action footwear: Tread carefully
10:40 Barry Cowan (Cisco Systems) & Laurel A. Sutton (Catchword/UC-Berkeley): Myth & reality of famous brands: How marketing makes a name brand
Invited Plenary Address
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Moderator: Edward Callary (N IL U)
D. Kenneth Tucker (Carleton U): Fingerprints & entropy: Comparing national distributions of forenames & surnames
Discussants: Terrence M. Potter (Georgetown U), Kemp Williams (Lang Analysis Systems, Inc.)
Names and Naming in Africa
Chair: S. J. Neethling (U Western Cape)
2:00 Lawrie A. Barnes (U S Africa) & Charles Pfukwa (Zimbabwe Open U): “Ethnic slurs” as war names in the Zimbabwean conflict (1966-1979)
2:30 Samson Olasunkanmi Oluga (Fed Polytech-Ede): Indigenous African human names as means of communication
3:00 Anthony C. Oha (Beson Idahosa U, Nigeria): Naming in fraud: A linguistic explication of naming possibilities among advanced fee fraudsters in Nigeria
3:30 S. J. Neethling (U Western Cape): The introduction of family names to Xhosa society
Names and Gender
Chair: Herbert Barry, III (U Pittsburgh)
4:00 Bruce Brown (Brigham Young U) & Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young U): Collateral anthroponomastic information in Han Chinese names for the identification of geo-location & gender
4:30 Masahiko Mutsukawa (MI SU): Phonology & semantics of Japanese given names
5:00 Herbert Barry, III (U Pittsburgh) & Aylene S. Harper (Community C Allegheny County-South Campus): Differences among six nations in first name & group policies
Sunday, 8 January
Clipping and Nicknames
Chair: Chao-chih Liao (Ntl Chiayi U)
8:30 Jaap van Marle (Open U Netherlands): Clipping patterns in name formation
9:00 Chao-chih Liao (Ntl Chiayi U): Nicknames of teachers
Round Table Reports and Discussion on Recent International Onomastic Conferences
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Moderator: Priscilla A. Ord (BookPerson, Inc.)
Discussants: Conference planners and attendees
Naming Normandy, Poorhouses, and Popes
Chair: Christine DeVinne (Ursuline C)
10:00 Dwan L. Shipley (W WA U): A comparative toponomastic analysis of Roman, Saxon, & Scandinavian influences on Normandy
10:20 Beth DiNatale Johnson (Ursuline C): Naming the poorhouse: Beggars to boomers
10:40 Christine DeVinne (Ursuline C): Pattern & self-profession in papal names
Arab and Popular Musical Group Names
Chair: Priscilla A. Ord (BookPerson, Inc.)
11:00 Terrence M. Potter (Georgetown U): Yacni: Why not an Arab name?
11:30 David Wilton (Wordorigins.org): Kurt Cobain & his orchestra: Shifts in naming conventions of popular music groups, 1923-2003