CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PART ONE -- VOCATIVES AS MITIGATORSIN FACE-THREATENING CONTEXTS -- PROLEGOMENA TO A DIFFERENTKIND OF NAMING -- UNCONVENTIONAL USES OF PROPER NAMES -- UNCONVENTIONAL -- PART TWO -- NAMES OF ABANDONED CHILDREN -- UNCONVENTIONAL ANTHROPONYMSIN THE HUNGARIAN SURNAME SYSTEM -- NICKNAMES OR COLLECTIVE BYNAMES? -- UNCONVENTIONAL FIRST NAMES -- CROSSING CULTURALAND LINGUISTIC BOUNDARIES -- ANTHROPONYMS IN ADVERTISING TEXTS(THE CASE OF RUSSIAN TELEVISIONCOMMERCIALS) -- THE PROSCRIPTION AND LEGITIMISATIONOF NAMES IN JAPAN -- IDENTITY CONCEALMENT IN PERSONAL NAMECHANGE, ANONYMITY AND PSEUDONYMITY -- ANTHROPONYMS IN THE DIGITAL AGE -- BYNAMES OF MEDIEVAL ROMANIANVOIVODES AND RULERS -- ANTHROPONOMASTIC PUNS IN THE ANCIENTEGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC SCRIPT,WITH CONSIDERATIONS ON ONOMASTICPUNNING IN DIFFERENT SCRIPT SYSTEMS -- FACETS OF ANTHROPONOMASTICS,EXPLANATION AND PLAYFULNESS -- ONOMASTIC PUNS AND FORMALARGUMENTATION -- PISAN AFFAIRS IN DIPLOMATICCORRESPONDENCE FROM TUNIS, IN 1227 -- SPELLING INNOVATIONS IN TWENTIETHCENTURYITALIAN ANTHROPONYMY -- DO BORDERS AND PROVINCIAL BOUNDARIESPREVENT NICKNAMES FROM CROSSINGTHE LINE? -- CODE NAMES IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA -- RECENT CHILD NAMING PRACTICES IN JAPAN -- COGNITIVE AND CULTURAL PECULIARITIESOF NICKNAMING IN THE MACRO-SOCIALGROUPS "POLITICS," "SPORT"AND "ENTERTAINMENT" -- PART THREE -- NAMES AS MECHANISMSOF DECONSTRUCTION IN ANGELA CARTER'SNIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS -- DOSTOEVSKY AND SURNAMESOF HIS CHARACTERS IN ERGONYMY -- KIDOR -- REVISITING FRANCIS LEE UTLEY'S 1941STUDY "THE ONE HUNDRED AND THREENAMES OF NOAH'S WIFE" -- SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE VALUEOF ONOMASTICS IN THE WORKOF JULES VERNE -- PART FOUR -- THE DESIGN OF THE PHONO-SEMANTICMATCHING (PSM) MODULEOF THE GALLURA ARCHITECTUREFOR GENERATING HUMOROUSAETIOLOGICAL TALES -- INDEX AUCTORUM ET OPERUM.

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