"Names and Their Environment": Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014. Vol. 4. Theory and Methodology. Socio-onomastics

It was a great pleasure to welcome 249 members of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences to Glasgow for the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences from 25-29 August 2014. Delegates attended from a total of 43 countries, testifying to the vigorous state of name studies throughout the world. The programme included 182 presentations on the congress theme of 'Names and their Environment', comprising 3 keynote lectures, 170 session papers and 9 posters. Of these, 145 were in English, 22 in German and 12 in French. We are delighted that 115 have been written up for publication in the congress proceedings, while a further 59 are represented in the form of abstracts. The proceedings comprise 5 volumes, organised according to the themed sections of the congress itself. Papers by keynote speakers appear at the beginning of Volume 1. Volumes 1 and 2 then cover Toponomastics; Volume 3 covers Anthroponomastics; Volume 4 covers Theory and Methodology as well as Socio-onomastics; and Volume 5 covers Literary Onomastics, Other Names and Commercial Names. Theory and Methodology 1 Bloothooft, Gerrit et al. (The Netherlands and other countries) / European Surname Typology Project (abstract) 2 Brendler, Silvio (Germany) / Names in the Eye of the Beholder, or Advanced Metalanguage for Discussing Names (abstract) 3 Bušs, Ojārs (Latvia) / Some Theoretical Aspects of the Translation of Proper Names 4 Edwards, Tara (United States of America) / Planning a Reverse Thematic Dictionary 11 Felecan, Daiana and Alina Bugheșiu (Romania) / Anthroponyms in Taboo Discourse: The Case of Romanian Swear Phrases 21 Hamilton, Rachael, Ellen Bramwell and Carole Hough (United Kingdom) / Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus: A New Resource for Investigating Metaphor in Names 33 Havlík, Martin (The Czech Republic) / Can Czechs Read Polish Names? Problems with the Adaptation of Foreign Anthroponyms and Toponyms 41 Helleland, Botolv (Norway) / The Great Onomastic Divide in Norway: The Standardizing Problem of Settlement (Farm) Names after 400 Years of Danish Influence 51 Jílková, Lucie (The Czech Republic) / Pronunciation of Hungarian Proper Names in Czech 60 Karpenko, Olena (Ukraine) / Cognitive Onomastics 69 Leino, Antti (Finland) / Heraldry as a Name System 75 Luneschi, Francescu Maria (France) / La dénomination des chèvres en corse: du nom commun au nom propre 82 Majewska, Ewa (Polen) / Eponyme in der deutschsprachigen medizinischen Fachpresse 94 Nanetti, Andrea, Francesco Perono Cacciafoco and Mario Giberti (Singapore / Italy) / Mapping and Visualizing Linguistic and Territorial Convergent Data: Imola and Its Environment as a Case Study 106 Nilsson, Leif (Sweden) / Place Names, Addresses and Standardization. A Summing-up of a Swedish Project (abstract) 118 Rangel Vicente, Montserrat (Espagne / France) / Pour une structuration prototypique de la catégorie nom propre en français 119 Rapa, Sanda (Latvia) / Some Semantic Universals in Latvian Toponymy 135 Robinson, David (United Kingdom) / Onomastics vs Etymology (abstract) 144 Rodríguez, Gabriele and Aliye Mehrebani-Yasyba (Germany) / A Dictionary of Turkic Names in Germany and Austria: A Book Project 145 Rsaliyeva, Nursaule and Kyzdarkhan Rysbergen (Kazakhstan) / Onomastic Space of Kazakhstan: Current Condition and Problems 153 Rus, Georgeta (Roumanie) / Perspective Traductive et Statistique de la Traduction du Nom Propre. Le Cas de l'Anthroponyme (abstract) 166 Rutkiewicz-Hanczewska, Małgorzata (Poland) / Semantics of Proper Names. The Structure of the Mental Lexicon of Proper Names 167 Štěpánová, Veronika (The Czech Republic) / How Should These Names Be Pronounced? Specific Phonetic Features of Proper Names in Czech 179 Todman, Amy and Leonie M. Dunlop (United Kingdom) / Contemporary and Antiquarian Views as Evidence for Toponymic Research: A Comparative Study of the Bass Rock and Greendykes Bing 188 Torensjö, Annette (Sweden) / Geographical Names Network in Sweden Has an Eye on Names! (abstract) 194 Socio-onomastics 195 Aleksiejuk, Katarzyna (United Kingdom) / Usernames and Identity Construction on RuNet as Seen in the Example of the Posidelki ('Gatherings') Forum 196 Bramwell, Ellen (United Kingdom) / Personal Naming in Scottish Communities (abstract) 207 Carsenat, Elian and Evgeny Shokhenmayer (France / Germany) / Onomastics to Measure Cultural Bias in Medical Research 208 Crook, Alice (United Kingdom) / An Overview of Personal Naming Practices in Scotland, 1680-1840 221 Embleton, Sheila (Canada) / The Diverse Naming Patterns of Contemporary India (abstract) 232 Frändén, Märit (Sweden) / Surnames in the Melting Pot: Presentation of a Project on Surnames and Immigration 233 Hämäläinen, Lasse (Finland) / User Names in Finnish Online Communities (abstract) 238 Koopman, Adrian (South Africa) / Naming 'the Other': Derogatory Ethnonyms in the Nguni Kingdom in the Early 1800s (abstract) 239 Léonard, Carol (Canada) / Toponymy and Vivification of Identity Among School-Age Children (abstract) 240 Mori, Olga (Germany) / For or Against Renaming 'Hindenburgplatz' in Münster, Germany 241 Nair, Gwyneth and Jennifer Scherr (United Kingdom) / What Were Women Really Called? Pet Forms of Female Names in English Parish Registers, 1540-1800 256 Nakari, Minna (Finland) / Variation in Women’s Name Phrases in Official Documents in Helsinki 1780-1930 263 Radding, Lisa (United States of America) / Marketing Software: Environmental Complications to Predicting Ethnicity with Onomastics (abstract) 271 Rajasuu, Riitta (Finnland) / Die Verbreitung der Mehrnamigkeit in Finnland in den Jahren 1725-1744 und 1825-1844 272 Særheim, Inge (Norway) / Place Names in Oral Tradition: Sources of Local Language and Cultural History 285 Schraagen, Marijn and Gerrit Bloothooft (The Netherlands) / Large Scale Harvesting of Variants of Proper Names (abstract) 293 Sjöblom, Paula, Ulla Hakala and Satu-Päivi Kantola (Finland) / Municipality Names in Consolidations: What Happens to Place Branding? 294 Sofinska, Iryna (Ukraine) / Application of Names in Ukraine: A Modern Discourse Towards European Integration 302 Tort-Donada, Joan (Spain) / Toponyms as Memory Marks (abstract) 312 Walkowiak, Justyna B. (Poland) / Lithuanisation of Personal Names of the Polish Minority in Lithuania 313