Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A historical account of the origins and use of over 800 given names.
Author : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0191578541
This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. The fascinating and informative Dictionary of First Names covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including the very newest names as well as traditional names. From Alice to Zanna and Adam to Zola this book will answer all your questions: it will tell you the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity, and who the famous fictional or historical bearers for the name have been. It covers alternative spellings, short forms and pet forms, and masculine and feminine forms, as well as help with pronunciation. The book includes extensive appendices covering names from languages including Scottish, Irish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese names. Tables of the most popular names by year and by region are also included. From the traditional to the rare and unconventional, this book will tell you everything you need to know about names.
Author : Emma Woo Louie
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786438770
The naming practices of Chinese Americans are the focus of this work. Since Chinese immigration began in the mid-19th century, names of immigrants and their descendants have been influenced by both Chinese and American name customs. This detailed study first describes the naming traditions of China, providing a base for understanding how personal names may change in the interaction between cultures. One discovers that surnames are clues to Chinese dialect sounds, that many have been Americanized, that new surnames were created and that, in more recent decades as the Chinese American population has grown, new names practices developed and surnames have proliferated. Included are ideographs to surnames and an overview of their preservation by Americans of Chinese descent.
Author : Makoto Shinkai
Publisher : Yen On
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316471862
Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a small town in the mountains, has a dream that she's a boy living in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy in Tokyo, dreams he's a girl living in a quaint little mountain town. Sharing bodies, relationships, and lives, the two become inextricably interwoven--but are any connections truly inseverable in the grand tapestry of fate? Written by director MAKOTO SHINKAI during the production of the film by the same title, your name. is in turns funny, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching as it follows the struggles of two young people determined to hold on to one another.
Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316271063
From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son. Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn't want to share a name. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Little Thunder thinks all hope is lost, dad picks the best name...Lightning! Their love will be loud and bright, and together they will light up the sky.
Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1770484280
This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
Author : Lewis L. Gould
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 113531148X
This volume presents thirty-nine interpretive biographical essays on all first ladies, from Martha Washington to America's newest First Lady, Laura Bush. This new edition contains updated material on all the living First Ladies and updated bibliographies for each entry, as well as a portrait of the newest First Lady.
Author : Linda Rosenkrantz
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780312267575
A fresh, illuminating guide to thousands of first names and their meanings.
Author : Lisa Tanya Brooks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300196733
"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.
Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195040401
Places all the more common names in their historical and linguistic context, discussing each name's etymology and usage through history.
