American Name Society

@americannamesociety.org

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The ANS was founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices. It seeks to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics in names. https://www.americannamesociety.org

The image contains details about a session at the annual meeting of the American Name Society, including the papers: "From Notorious Nicknames to Criminal Archetypes: The Antonomasia of Al-Khott, Al-Tourbini, and Al-Mustarih in Egyptian News Discourse" by Amira Hanafi Elzohiery, Cairo University, Egypt "Names and Anonymizers in the Context of Crime in Online News Texts" by Linnea Gustafsson, Halmstad University, Sweden Per Klang, Halmstad University, Sweden Malin Klang, Uppsala University, Sweden "Onomastics of Extremism: A Collocation Analysis of Selected Names in Anders Breivik's Manifesto" by Tereza Klemensová, University of Ostrava, Czechia Michal Místecký, University of Ostrava, Czechia. Registration information also appears in the image and attached link.