ANS 2013

9:00      Anja Bruhn (University of Potsdam /German Data Forum), Denis Huschka (German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)/Rhodes University/German Data Forum), Gert G. Wagner (Max Planck Institute for Human Development/German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)/ Berlin University of Technology /German Data Forum): The name letter effect: applying a psychological concept to naming habits; the case of Germany.

9:00      Karen Pennesi (University of Western Ontario): Reading and Righting the Names at a Graduation Ceremony

9:30      Ernest Lawrence Abel (Wayne State University): Dickensian eponyms

10:15    Diane Dechief (University of Toronto): In the name of performance: the presentation of personal names shifted through immigration to Canada

10:45    Maryann Parada (University of Illinois at Chicago): Socio-onomastic perspectives of Spanish receptive bilinguals: Personal names as a linguistic resource

11:15    Herbert Barry III (University of Pittsburgh), Aylene S. Harper (Community College of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: Diversification of personal names continued from 2005 to 2010 for Whites but not Blacks

10:15    Daniel Friend (Brigham Young University): The Ashley Pattern: female appropriation of historically male names

11:15    Brad Wilcox (Brigham Young University), Wendy Baker Smemoe (Brigham Young University), Bruce Brown (Brigham Young University), Sky Rodio (Brigham Young University). Naming patterns in Tolkien’s invented languages: are there separate phonoprints?

Kemp Williams (IBM Corporation)

The Case for Analytical Name Scoring.

3:15      Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College): When Harry and Sally became Chaim-Dov and Sara-Bracha: personal names among Orthodox Jews in America, 1940-2011

3:45      Lorelei Logsdon (East Carolina University) Trends in English transparent virtue names.

4:15      Covadonga Lamar Prieto (University of California Riverside). Bobbie, Deivy, Kate, or how hypocoristics are formalized in the Spanish of the US, according to the Diccionario de Americanismos (2010).

3:15      Beth DiNatale Johnson (Ursuline College): Ohio’s colleges and universities: names, notions & nuances

3:45      Laura Heymann (College of William & Mary): A name I call myself: creativity and naming

4:15      Christine De Vinne (Notre Dame of Maryland University) Names in reviews, reviews in Names

8:30      Tao Ma (Shanghai Sanda University): A comparative-corpus approach to patterns in the mapping and compounding process of body-part names in English and Chinese

9:00      Yi-An Jason Chen (San Jose State University): A study on Taiwanese international students and Taiwanese American students: the interface between naming and identity

9:30      Jhih-Jie Carey Dong (Taiwan Indigenous Teachers’ Association), Yi-An Jason Chen (San Jose State University): The traditional names of Paiwan: identity, hierarchy, and social stratum

9:00      Mirko Casagranda (University of Naples ‘L’orientale’): 101 hills turned into islands: renaming the Caniapiscau Reservoir

9:30      Ernest Lawrence Abel (Wayne State University): Toponymous disorders: city syndromes

10:15    Jonathan Silverman (UMass Lowell), Tom Henthorne (Pace University). The Big Bang, String Theory, and the God Particle:  Naming, Branding, and the Marketing of Science.

10:45    Priscilla Ord (McDaniel College). On the Origin of [the Name of the] Species: “Going Once, Going Twice, Sold to the Highest Bidder”

10:15    Michael Falk (Independent scholar): The names of Nova Scotia’s coves

10:45    Edward Callary (Northern Illinois University): On Wisconsin – again

2:00      Michael Adams (Indiana University): The American Blade: etymologies of a newspaper name

2:30      Xuehua Xiang (University of Illinois at Chicago). The domain names of Fortune-500 corporations in the US and China: A cross-linguistic study

3:00      Carol Lombard (University of the Free State). Lazy K’s, Hanging 7’s, Broken Hearts and Rafter H’s: the language and tradition of American cattle brands

2:00      Marc-Alexandre Beaulieu (University of Leiden): A diachronic outlook of Cobo’s early Spanish toponymy in South America

2:30      Dwan Lee Shipley (Western Washington University): A cross-linguistic comparative analysis of the toponymy of Cornwall, the Isle of Man, and Brittany in France

3:45      Charles Pfukwa (Midlands State University). Jabulani kuphela*: J.R. Goddard and the power of the brand name

4:15      Idowu O. Odebode (Redeemer’s University): A socio-semantic study of twins’ names among the Yoruba Nigerians

4:45      Adebola Omolara Adebileje (Redeemer’s University): A socio-semantic analysis of nicknames used by Yoruba brides for in-laws

3:45      Gretchen Lutz (North American College): What’s in a name? Finding identity in James Welch’s Native American novel, Fools Crow

4:15      Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University): From Clara Wieland to Janice Meredith: the influence of literature on baby names in the 19^th century United States

4:45      Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University): Fictional names masquerading as literary-historical monikers: onomastic simulacra in A. S. Byatt’s Possession