Syllabus
SESSIONS (ZS 2024) 1) 5. 10. Introduction to name studies.
Course requirements. 2) 12. 10. Place names (toponyms) 3) 19. 10.
Personal names (anthroponyms) 4) 26. 10. Animal names (zoonyms) 5) 2. 11.
Commercial names 6) 9. 11. Literary names (names in fiction) 7) 16. 11. Metaphor and metonymy in naming 8) 23. 11.
It’s not only about names – or is it? (interdisciplinarity of names, socio- onomastics and namescapes, cognitive onomastics, ...) x 30. 11. the room is reserved (NO LECTURE) 9) 7. 12. Name research around the world (ICOS, journals, conferences, …) 10) 14. 12.
TBD – topic/s depend/s on the students (their interests and questions that might relate to their presentations) 11) 21. 12. Presentations 12) 4. 1. Presentations 13) 11. 1.
Presentations and evaluation of the course.
Annotation
The course provides an overview of different subdisciplines within onomastics (e.g. toponyms, anthroponyms, commercial names, etc.) and also the possibilities of interdisciplinary outreach of name research (digital humanities, archaeology, translation, etc.). The individual topics will be adjusted according to the students’ culture, language background and interests).