American Name Society
2011 Annual Meeting
Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
January 6 – 9, 2011
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in Fort Pitt
Thursday, 6 January
Linguistics and Naming
Chair: Herbert Barry III (University of Pittsburgh)
4:45 Lynn Burley (University of Central Arkansas): Fred and Ginger, Mary and Joseph, and Bill and Hillary: Who comes first in a name pair?
5:15 Herbert Barry III (University of Pittsburgh), Aylene S. Harper (Community College of Allegheny County): National differences in prediction of sex from final letter of first names
Branding
Chair: Ernest Lawrence Abel (Wayne State University)
6:00 Ernest Lawrence Abel (Wayne State University): Condom nation: The literary heritage of early condom branding in America
6:30 Alice Crosetto (University of Toledo), Thomas A. Atwood (University of Toledo): Naming academic libraries: Is institutional identity obscuring the generous benefactors and illustrious educators of old?
7:00 Livingstone Makondo (North West University, South Africa): Commuter operators’ names: An advertising gimmick
Friday 7 January
ANS Special Panel: Onomastics and War
Chair: Iman Makeba Laversuch (University of Cologne)
8:15 Sinfree B. Makoni (Penn State University): Linguistic theories of naming in Zimbabwe: Structuralism and integrationism
8:30 Nollaig Ó Muraíle (National University of Ireland): War and weapons in Irish toponymy
8:45 Questions
9:00 Break
9:15 Christian Todenhagen (California State University, Chico): How Germantown became Artois: A micro case study on the effect of WWI on the naming of a US American town
9:30 Denis Huschka (German Institute for Economic Research), Anja Bruhn (German Institute for Economic Research), Gert G. Wagner (German Institute for Economic Research): The Influence of World War II and Cold War on personal naming patterns in Germany
9:45 Iman Makeba Laversuch (University of Cologne): A Question of Faith: The Battle Over US Census Nomenclature for Muslim American Residents After the Second Gulf War
10:00 Questions
Toponyms
Chair: Dwan Lee Shipley (Western Washington University)
10:30 André Lapierre (University of Ottawa): Not children of a lesser god: The status of alternate names in Ontario
11:00 Peter E. Raper (University of the Free State, South Africa): San (Bushman) influence on Zulu place names
11:30 Lisa Radding (Ethnic Technologies LLC), John Western (Syracuse University): What’s in a name: Linguistics, geography, and toponyms
12:00 Dwan Lee Shipley (Western Washington University): A comparative toponymic and linguistic analysis of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings with place names in the British Isles
2:00 – 3:00 PM Presidential Address
Chair: Donna L. Lillian (Appalachian State University)
Priscilla A. Ord (McDaniel College): Rural Roads as Relics of Local History: The Mills of Carroll County, Maryland
3:15 – 4:00 PM Name of the Year Discussion and Balloting
Moderator: Cleveland K. Evans (Bellevue University)
Sociocultural Factors in Naming Children
Chair: Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University)
4:00 Giancarla Unser-Schutz (Hitotsubashi University, Japan): Manipulating readings: New trends in the structural patterns of Japanese baby names
4:30 Idowu Odebode (Redeemer’s University, Nigeria): A socio-semantic study of twins’ names among the Yoruba Nigerians
5:00 Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University): Names below 1000: A preliminary investigation of the new data on American given names available from the Social Security Administration
Saturday, January 8
Literary Onomastics
Chair: Christine De Vinne (College of Notre Dame of Maryland)
8:00 Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University): Imperial names for “Practical Cats”: Establishing a distinctly British pride in T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
8:30 Brad Wilcox (Brigham Young University), Sharon Black (Brigham Young University): Four authors of fiction for children and young adults speak about naming characters
9:00 Ashlee L. Bell (West Monroe High School, West Monroe, Louisiana): Noms de gloom: The Prophetic and damning effects of character names in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield
9:30 Christine De Vinne (College of Notre Dame of Maryland): The problem of Doris Lessing’s Ben: What to name the unnamable in The Fifth Child and Ben, in the World
Names in Science and NAMES
Chair: Michael McGoff (State University of New York at Binghamton)
10:15 Ernest Lawrence Abel (Wayne State University): The names in NAMES
10:45 David Wade (Wade Research Foundation): Searching for Amelia Earhart at the molecular level
Political Dimensions of Naming
Chair: Karen Duchaj (Northeastern Illinois University)
2:00 Nataliya Semchynska Uhl (Purdue University): Political Influences on the Transformations of Transliterated Ukrainian Names
2:30 Bayram Unal (Binghamton University), Mehmet Ekiz (Nigde University, Turkey): Naming politics and the political interests in everyday life: The case of Nigde, Turkey
3:00 Karen A. Duchaj (Northeastern Illinois University), Jeanine Ntihirageza (Northeastern Illinois University): The structure and function of direct address by name in two-party conversation, as exemplified in political interviews
Multicultural Personal Names
Chair: Myleah Y. Kerns (East Carolina University)
3:45 Pongsak Rattanawong (Chiang Mai University, Thailand): Lisu nicknames
4:15 Genevieve Leung (University of Pennsylvania): Disambiguating the term “Chinese”: An analysis of Chinese American naming practices
4:45 Miranda McCarvel (University of Utah), Ryan Denzer-King (Rutgers University): Morphological analysis of Blackfoot personal names
5:15 Adebola Adebileje (Redeemer’s University, Nigeria): A Socio-semantic study of in-laws’ nicknames used by Yoruba new brides
5:45 Myleah Y. Kerns (East Carolina University): An analysis of the social and cultural dynamics of women’s alternative name choices