Personal Names and Naming Practices among the Vatsonga

Chauke, M.T.

doi:10.1080/09720073.2015.11891664

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“…Chipalo 2019), anthropology (cf. Chauke 2015;Mandende 2009), andmorphosemantics (cf. Gerba 2014;Kinyua 2020).…”

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A morphological analysis of Kemunasukuma personal names

Shigini,

Mapunda

2023

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Personal names and naming practices are among the linguistic topics that have occupied scholarly attention from diverse fields: philosophy, history, anthropology, linguistics, and psychology. This paper investigates personal names from a linguistic perspective. It examines Kemunasukuma personal names by focusing on their structural patterns and the morphological processes involved in their formation. The study followed a qualitative approach as it deals with textual data (personal names). Data was collected through interviews and documentary review, and morphological approaches were adopted in data analysis. Personal names were broken down into meaningful morphemes to trace their structural patterns as well as determine the word-formation processes involved. The findings indicate that Kemunasukuma personal names exhibit seven structural patterns that range from simple to complex. Also, the findings indicate that three word-formation processes: inflection, derivation, and compounding are productive and responsible for the formation of Kemunasukuma personal names. The structure of Kemunasukuma personal names not only points to the structure of the Sukuma language but also gives vital clues about their semantics.

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“…Chipalo 2019), anthropology (cf. Chauke 2015;Mandende 2009), andmorphosemantics (cf. Gerba 2014;Kinyua 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

A morphological analysis of Kemunasukuma personal names

Shigini,

Mapunda

2023

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“…This connection which has been transferred via cultural memory is symbolized with the names to tell the other communities passively about their religious beliefs, preferences and reactions. Hence, the names carry a special meaning for each nation as they carry the nation's history and culture remind the members of that nation's memories from the past [19]. Whether it is a prohibition or the result of a sacred verse or prays, names and naming are a great preference for most of the societies.…”

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Ethnography of Naming as a Religious Identity: Case of Antakya

Şahin¹

2017

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Antakya is the central district of Hatay Province located in the eastern Mediterranean Region. Once populated by a variety of different ethno-religious communities, today it is still a place where Jewish, Christian, Sunni Muslim, and Arab Alevi (Nusayri) communities live together. This study is aimed at gaining insight into the naming preferences and naming rituals among different religious communities with a comparative perspective.The key question this study seeks to answer is how the religious belief to which people belong affects the names they are given and how the religious community draws a line between "self" and "other" based on the name. Names given to children or avoided as a taboo in different communities give the hints of a faith-based cultural memory a community established with its past. In this study, which is built on ethnography, field study method was utilized, and interviews were conducted with people from different communities. These interviews provided detailed insights into the variables people consider in naming their children, whether or not the religious identity to which they belong is influential in choosing a name, the naming experiences and rituals.

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“…Researchers' attention to the study of personal names could be attributed to the significance of personal names in different cultures and society. Notable among research on personal names are studies by Obeng [31], Zawawi [43], Neethling [28], Agyekum [4], Al-Zumor [7], Mutunda [25,27], Chauke [10] and Olatunji et al [34]. These studies have shown that, names are not only markers of identity and arbitrary but a source of a variety of information (Agyekum [4]; Suzman [39]).…”

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Anthropomastics in Selected Zambian Novels: A Cultural Appraisal

Mutunda¹

2017

IJECS

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(2000) by Binwell Sinyangwe. Given the focus of the present paper, these literary works were selected because they are interesting texts and artworks in different ways. All the personal names in these texts are studied and analysed using the insights from literary onomastics. This paper aims to explore how the character names in the selected fiction serve as devices through which the social reality that the author writes about is encapsulated and analysed, and comprise a fresh way of understanding the novels. The paper concludes that character names in the texts are carefully chosen to serve particular thematic and stylistic purposed.

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Personal Names and Naming Practices among the Vatsonga

Cited by 15 publications

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A morphological analysis of Kemunasukuma personal names

A morphological analysis of Kemunasukuma personal names

Ethnography of Naming as a Religious Identity: Case of Antakya

Anthropomastics in Selected Zambian Novels: A Cultural Appraisal

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