Married name and identity - the self-referential naming conventions of married women on a social network website

Abstract

This paper discusses the results of an investigation based on the profiles of a social network website. More specifically, it investigates the naming conventions of women who on the website identified themselves as married.

They have been selected on the basis of same age, education and residence.

Keywords

• married name, self-referential naming conventions, computer-mediated communication, identity