Table of Contents

Contributors Acknowledgements Laura Kostanski and Guy Puzey: Trends in Onomastics: An Introduction Part 1: The Varied Identities of People and Places 1. Katarzyna Aleksiejuk: Internet Personal Naming Practices and Trends in Scholarly Approaches 2. Ian D. Clark: Visitor Experiences of Aboriginal Place Names in Colonial Victoria, Australia, 1834-1900 3. Michael Walsh: Introduced Personal Names for Australian Aborigines: Adaptations to an Exotic Anthroponymy 4. Ellen S. Bramwell: Personal Naming and Community Practices in the Western Isles of Scotland: Putting Names 'in the Gaelic Sense' 5. Peter Muhlhausler and Joshua Nash: Signs of/on Power, Power on/of Signs: Language-Based Tourism, Linguistic Landscapes, and Onomastics on Norfolk Island Part 2: Attitudes and Attachment 6. Laura Kostanski: The Controversy of Restoring Indigenous Names: Lessons Learnt and Strategies for Success 7. Terhi Ainiala: Attitudes towards Street Names in Helsinki 8. Maimu Berezkina: Linguistic Landscape and the Inhabitants' Attitudes towards Place Names in Multicultural Oslo 9. Maggie Scott: Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon 10. Erzsebet Gyorffy: Slang Toponyms in Hungary: A Survey of Attitudes among Language Users Part 3: Power, Resistance and Control 11. Guy Puzey: Renaming as Counter-Hegemony: The Cases of Noreg and Padania 12. Staffan Nystrom: Naming Parks, Foot-Paths and Small Bridges in a Multicultural Suburban Area 13. Justyna B. Walkowiak: Personal Names in Language Policy and Planning: Who Plans What Names for Whom and How? 14. Aud-Kirsti Pedersen: Is the Official Use of Names in Norway Determined by the Place-Names Act or Attitudes? 15. Kaisa Rautio Helander: The Power of Administration in the Official Recognition of Indigenous Place Names in the Nordic Countries Index

About the Author

Guy Puzey is Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests include language policy, linguistic landscapes and geosemiotics, critical sociolinguistics and toponomastics, particularly in the contexts of Scotland and the Nordic countries.Laura Kostanski is Director at Geonaming Solutions Pty Ltd & Address Exchange Pty Ltd, and is based in Australia. Her research interests include toponymy, human geography, geospatial systems, crowd sourcing, government policy and Indigenous cultural heritage.

Reviews

This volume makes a key contribution to the rapidly-expanding field of critical onomastics, presenting new insights into the symbolic value of names in human society. Case studies from different parts of the world highlight the role of names as powerful symbols of identity, particularly in areas of language contact or conflict. The essays are both scholarly and accessible, and deserve to be widely read. Carole Hough, University of Glasgow, UK Names and Naming: People, Places, Perceptions and Power is a great addition to the 'critical turn' in naming studies. Guy Puzey and Laura Kostanski have brought together an excellent group of scholars to produce a diverse range of empirically rich and critically aware case studies of the politics of naming. This is an important book for anyone who wants to learn about the latest developments in socially engaged and critical approaches to onomastics. Lawrence D. Berg, University of British Columbia, Canada I have been working with place names for many years but the articles in this publication have continued my education of the role that names of all varieties play in helping us to find our place. This is not only in a spatial sense, but in cultural and personal aspects I had not previously considered. These papers allowed me to see this and I commend all for the work that has been undertaken in the investigation and preparation of the insights presented. William Watt, Chair, United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names This book is a welcome addition to the expanding field of onomastics. It joins the likes of Hough's (2016) edited volume to present a wealth of studies that would broaden our understanding of how naming practices affect people, places and of what images and attitudes their names conjure up. In fact, this book shares seven contributors with Hough's volume. The interdisciplinary nature of the field of onomastics makes this book a treasure for post-graduate students and researchers in cultural studies, historical linguistics, human geography and planning, lexicology, sociolinguistics, sociology, and urbanization. -- Paula Prescod, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France LINGUIST List 27.5049