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Christian Witness in a World Full of Fascists
Authors: Penner Myron Bradley
Published: January 2023

Today I will begin to explore with you the question of what Christian witness looks like today, in the context of violent ideological aggression and war. And I must acknowledge right from the start: I am keenly aware of my location – safe and secure in Canada – and of the location of many of you, who are suffering in the midst of a heinous and brutal war, and in constant and imminent danger of its threats (or at least have loved ones caught in the midst of this horrible aggression). So I am aware, then, that in many respects you are my teachers in regard to my principal question here. All I can hope to do is explore with you what I learn from Holy Scripture and from those who have reflected deeply on it (principally from the study of Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer). I trust that that these meagre reflections will have meaning for you as you seek to be faithful under these incredibly difficult circumstances.
Introduction to the special issue on "Geoconservation" of the Journal of the Geological Survey of Brazil
Authors: Nascimento Marcos , Garcia Maria da Gloria , Mansur Kátia
Published: January 2023

This Special Issue on Geoconservation brings relevant contributions from Brazilian researchers on topics ranging from data collection to geoscientific outreach. The ten selected papers were initially presented as abstracts at the V Brazilian Symposium on Geological Heritage, held in Crato, Ceará, from October 14 to 18, 2019.
Aspects of multiculturalism in the diminutivisation of anthroponyms
Authors:   Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, Centrul Universitar Nord Baia Mare, România, Iluț Silvia
Published: January 2023

This paper mainly aims to identify the psychological, affective and sociolinguistic motivations that determine the change of the basic form of an anthroponym, in our case the evolution towards a diminutive form. The research is based on a comparative analysis between the multicultural elements that influence the process of turning proper names specific to Romanian and European areas into diminutives. To illustrate the goals of our research, we will begin by classifying the anthroponyms into two main categories − conventional (official) names and unconventional names (hypocoristics). There is a certain degree of relativity regarding the use of diminutive forms of proper names in European space, as they have a twofold character in the process of naming: on the one hand, they denote feelings of affection and, on the other, a certain degree of irony. The methodology employed consists of methods and concepts specific to onomastics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. The body of the paper will illustrate and analyse pieces of information and results obtained through sociolinguistic inquiry and surveys and will also introduce examples taken from online sources.
Anthroponyms at the crossroads of different cultures
Authors:   “Gh. Dima” Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Ionescu Denisa‑Alexandra
Published: January 2023

Anthroponymy mirrors faithfully the features and core values of people considered as individuals or as ethnic groups sharing common traits. Whether we refer to a religious name chosen for one’s child according to one’s personal beliefs, a foreign, trendy name, or an unusual name which ensures the bearer is easily distinguished, all anthroponyms convey a message. Depending on people’s particular way of perceiving integration in a foreign culture, some may choose to give their children names that are specific to their native culture to perpetuate their tradition; others may wish not to reveal their migrant background by naming their offspring in a way that is characteristic to the host culture. The present approach is both synchronic and diachronic. It follows naming practices in contemporary multicultural communities, at the same time illustrating how names are culturally embedded. The grounds for this perspective are provided by the analysis of a wide corpus of anthroponyms existing in sayings and proverbs pertaining to three different languages and cultures: Romanian, English and Italian.
Dynamics of anthroponymy in the context of migration: Borşa, Maramureş county, Romania
Authors:   Institutul de Lingvistică şi Istorie Literară „Sextil Puşcariu” al Academiei Române, filiala Cluj-Napoca, România, Mihali Adelina Emilia
Published: January 2023

This paper is a sociolinguistic analysis of anthroponyms from Borşa, Maramureş county, Romania, in the context of migration. The research illustrates the dynamic of anthroponyms, the frequency of foreign names and bilingual nominal structures, as well as the sociocultural factors underlying the choice of names. The corpus of the article consists of first names of newborns, extracted from civil and parish registers of Borşa and verified, in part, through a questionnaire filled in by the parents. The time interval proposed for the analysis spans 18 years (2000– 2018), including the period in which migratory flows multiply and many migrants return. Thus, the onomastic material subjected to research is representative of anthroponymic multiculturalism in Romania.
Anthroponymy in a Roma community: between tradition and innovation
Authors:   Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, Centrul Universitar Nord Baia Mare, România, Negele Cristina Serena
Published: January 2023

There is a great interest in the study of anthroponyms in the Roma community in Romania, because they are defined by a less common type of semantic richness. The act of naming bears the imprint of their preferences, their connection with different cultures, their attitude towards religion, brands and events. Thus, one can notice the coexistence of old, traditional names and names influenced by onomastic fashion, of original, atypical first names and names with religious origins. Therefore, the Roma are among the few people with unique names, which is why they can be unequivocally identified in society.
Origin of the names of bishops from the metropolitan see of Blaj: an etymological perspective
Authors:   Episcopia Greco‑Catolică de Maramureş, România, Nicoară George Marius
Published: January 2023

This article identifies the etymology of the names of bishops from the metropolitan see of Blaj, from the origin of the Romanian Church United with Rome (Greek-Catholic Church) until nowadays, while considering the onomastic influence of Latin on the bishops’ names. The analysis starts from an etymological study (Hebrew, Greek and Latin names) which is interwoven with aspects concerning the structure of the Romanian language, the interaction with Catholic tradition and other onomastic influences on the names in question.
Ethnic and religious connections reflected in anthroponomastics. Observations based on Catagrafiile Vistieriei Moldovei. Ţinutul Suceava (1820) [Censuses of the Moldavian treasury. The county of Suceava (1820)]
Authors:   Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide” din Iaşi, România, Butnaru Daniela
Published: January 2023

This study aims at presenting the ethnic and religious mosaic in the county of Suceava at the beginning of the 19th century based on Catagrafiile Vistieriei Moldovei. Ţinutul Suceava (1820) [Censuses of the Moldavian treasury. The county of Suceava (1820)], published in 2017 by Marius Adumitroaei and Mircea Ciubotaru. These censuses include lists of landowners, tribute payers and people exempted from tribute, providing valuable information about the dynamic of the population, the financial state of the inhabitants, the types of work in which people were engaged at that time or prior to that period, the ethnic and religious affiliation of the people included in the censuses, their kinship, marital status and the like. Moreover, the censuses provide significant information regarding the anthroponomastics of the area, as they mark a major moment in the formation of the system of Romanian personal names, that is, the introduction on a large scale of a second name (which accompanied people’s first name). The ethnic connections illustrated by these documents can be noticed in the presence of ethnonyms, some of which became anthroponyms (Cazacu, Grecu, Leahu, Rusu, Turcu), as well as in the presence of foreign names specific to certain ethnic groups (Gorovei, Melniciuc, Clim, Clucenschi, etc.).
Onomastic reflections of Italian emigration to Argentina: interlinguistic contacts and identity reestablishment
Authors:   Università di Torino, Italia, Papa Elena
Published: January 2023

This paper aims to retrace the most significant phases in the formation of modern Argentine onomastics, as a result of the construction of national identity, a process which assimilates and recomposes the variety of the original ethnic components. A diachronic reading of the data, starting from the baptismal registers of a rural community north of Córdoba, will allow for an evaluation of the onomastic choices, indicating the contours of the progressive reworking of the identity profile of Italian migrants, modified by means of interlinguistic and intercultural contacts.
The influence of borrowed names on the Lithuanian stock of personal names: the case of names ending in -ija, -ijus
Authors:   Vilnius University, Lithuania, Sinkevičiūtė Daiva
Published: January 2023

From the 20th century new proper names with the formant -ij- began to spread in Lithuania. Their appearance was influenced by borrowed names with -ij-: Marija, Viktorija. These were quite common and diverse, with the result that -ij- was reinterpreted as an independent suffix and had an impact on the formation of new long suffixes. The new formants obtained in such a way exemplify how borrowed names impact the Lithuanian stock of national names and become a part of it.
Cultural, social and political influences on the frequency of saints’ names
Authors:   ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Slíz Mariann
Published: January 2023

The paper outlines some phenomena that may influence the popularity of saints’ names in Christian societies. The diachronic overview focuses on the Hungarian given name stock and its changes and alternations in time, space and society. The multidisciplinary approach is mainly based on historical and onomastic literature and large databases of given names from the Middle Ages to modern days. Among the religious factors, the study presents the impact of religious taboos, the interference between cults of saints of the same name, and the collective veneration of saints. Political factors are also introduced: the effects of the Reformation, Catholic Revival, and wars against the Ottoman Empire in the 16th–18th centuries.
Names in the context of mixed families in Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Authors:   Institutul de Lingvistică şi Istorie Literară „Sextil Puşcariu” al Academiei Române, filiala Cluj-Napoca, România, Vremir Narta
Published: January 2023

The paper aims to present several trends regarding the name choices for people living in Romanian-Hungarian mixed families. In the case of ethnic minorities, the name constitutes an indicator for the bearer’s identification with his/her ethnic group or a visible sign of assimilation with the majority, thus being a basic social determination. In the case of mixed families, a preference is assumed for the use of language-neutral surnames to ensure stable coexistence in the bilingual environment, i.e. easy accommodation in any cultural environment.
Romanian toponymy in Szabó T. Attila’s works. Solnoc-Dăbâca county. I. Vocalism
Authors:   Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică şi Istorie Literară „Sextil Puşcariu”, Cluj-Napoca, România, Adam Gabriela‑Violeta
Published: January 2023

The Magyarization of Romanian toponymy in historical Transylvania was achieved in three different ways: 1) adapting the onomastic material to the Hungarian orthographic and phonetic system; 2) translating the toponymic items; 3) adopting the specific Hungarian morphosyntactic rules. The Magyarization of microtoponymy did not have repercussions on the morphosyntactic and lexical levels; the adoption of Hungarian orthography ensured only the formal assimilation of the toponyms. The Hungarian orthographic principles and norms, used inconsistently, reflect numerous oscillating contexts in which the sounds ă, î, u have as graphic correspondents both labial and non-labial vowels. The Magyarization of Romanian toponymy in historical Transylvania did not obscure specific dialectal features, which highlight important information on the age and strata of populations and the relationships among them
Multicultural urbanonyms in Timişoara
Authors:   Centrul de Studii Lingvistice Româneşti, Timişoara, România, Goicu-Cealmof Simona
Published: January 2023

The urbanonyms in Timişoara testify to the history of this city: the rule of Charles Robert of Anjou and John Hunyadi (Castelul Huniade), the Habsburg governance (Iosefin, Elisabetin), the royal rule of interwar Romania (Parcul „Regina Maria”), the communist regime (Liceul „Nikos Beloianis”), the post-communist governance (Piaţa Victoriei). The names of high schools are indicative of the ethnic and religious tolerance specific to Timişoara (Liceul Teoretic „Nikolaus Lenau”, Liceul Teoretic Maghiar „Bartók Béla”, Liceul Teoretic Sârbesc „Dositei Obradovici”, Liceul Teologic Romano-Catolic „Gerhardinum”).
Balkan motifs in Russian urbanonymy: “Romanian” and “Bulgarian” street names
Authors:   Ural Federal University & Missionary Institute, Russia, Goryaev Sergey , Olshvang Olga ,   Ural Federal University & Ural State Medical University, Russia
Published: January 2023

The paper discusses some names of the Russian urban space, mainly street names, referring to the ethnonyms Romanian and for comparison Bulgarian, as well as to the names of the capitals of these countries and certain geographical objects, e.g., улица Румынская ‘Romanian street’ (the city of Astrakhan), Болгарский городок ‘Bulgarian town’ (a district in the city of Novokujbyshevsk), Софийский переулок ‘Sophia lane’ (the city of Shimanovsk), shopping center “Bucharest” (Moscow). The appearance of such names in the Russian onomasticon reflects the historical relations between Russia and the mentioned Balkan peoples, their common political history in the 20th century and, in a broader sense, the ways of manifestation of multiculturalism, not related to the global westernization of modern culture.
Exonyms as expressions of intercultural relations
Authors:   Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Vienna, Jordan Peter
Published: January 2023

Exonyms in the sense of place names used not by the local community, but by other communities and differing in writing from endonyms are frequently regarded as typical for monolingual, monocultural situations, where communication occurs between people speaking the same language. They are sometimes even seen as expressing territorial claims or political nostalgia, thus as indicating politically expansive, hostile or at least insensitive attitudes – incompatible with multiculturalism. The paper will hint at another aspect of exonyms, i.e. the aspect of facilitating intercultural relations by making it easier to pronounce and use names for geographical features outside a community’s own territory, to remember them, to develop a rather precise mental map of foreign territories and thus to incorporate an otherwise ‘strange world’ into a community’s own cultural sphere, to avoid unnecessary alienation. The paper will also show that consequently the corpus of exonyms used by a certain community reflects this community’s external cultural, economic and political relations.
A mirror of ethnic and anthroponymic diversity of a Transylvanian town: Condica Haţegului [Book of Haţeg] (1725–1847)
Authors:   Universitatea „Babeş-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca, România, Chircu Adrian
Published: January 2023

In this study, the author aims to develop the analysis begun on the occasion of ICONN 4. The present article is focused on anthroponyms whose origin is different from Romanian, in view of illustrating the multiculturalism of Haţeg. Therefore, a sequential depiction of old Romanian anthroponymy is proposed, to complete the descriptions made over the years for other parts of the Romanian lands. The multiethnic anthroponymic picture remains evocative of one of the most dynamic towns of the olden days, situated at a crossroads. The interpretation of anthroponyms in Haţeg is carried out from various perspectives, but the predominant approach pertains to onomastics. This can be accounted for through the content or the particularities of the Haţeg registry book, which contains a significant number of personal names (first and last names). Due to the publication of the documents outside Romania, in Latin, Hungarian or German, the description of certain anthroponyms is difficult to achieve
Toponyms of the Cree Amerindians and geological resources in Quebec, Canada
Authors:   Université du Québec en Abitibi‑Témiscamingue (UQAT), Canada, Martin Marcienne
Published: January 2023

Among nomadic peoples, the designation of a geographical location is a way of locating itself directly in the visual field of the group concerned, unlike the GPS (satellite geolocation system) whose information is decrypted and retransmitted through artifacts. In the context of nomadism, if toponymy is a localization system with regard to moving from one place to another and common to a given group, its retranscription may differ according to the needs of such a society. This is the case with the toponymy of the Cree Amerindians and geological resources in Quebec. In this paper, the procedure for validating mineralogical indices from toponyms will take into account the fact that these names were created from the observation made by the Cree Native American nation: color, shine, texture. Why could toponyms be indicators of mineral resources and possibly of minerals as well?
Multiculturalism and onomastics in the comarcas along the lower course of the river Ebro
Authors:   Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain, Navarro‑Gómez Pere , Veà-Vila Sílvia
Published: January 2023

This study analyses the names of places and people of diverse origins collected from the documents which outline the territory from the mouth of the river Ebro (running into the sea) in Catalonia, and the adjacent part of the Aragon strip. These place names and anthroponyms are based on Latin onomastics, influenced by the Arabization of the Iberian Peninsula which occurred in the eighth century and the subsequent cultural and linguistic Catalanization. It is possible to observe that the primitive Latin element is evident in names of Mozarabic origin, and that there are many Arab, and some Hebrew elements, which are the result of the presence of these two cultures during the Middle Ages in our territory. The Catalan element – which makes up the majority – comes from the medieval Christian repopulation carried out during the reign of Count Ramon Berenguer IV in the mid-twelfth century. It should be noted that, with Catalan, some elements of the pre-Roman substrate and Germanic superstrate were also introduced into the proper names.
Language contacts and deonyms in contemporary journalistic Italian language
Authors:   Università degli studi di Torino, Italia, Borgia Carola
Published: January 2023

This paper focuses its attention on the presence of deonyms – in this case, new words derived from the surnames of foreign heads of state – in presentday journalistic Italian language. The research was conducted by analyzing the historical archive of two of the most relevant newspapers in Italy: la Repubblica and La Stampa. The purpose is to emphasize the main different semantic nuances of the words consisting of politicians’ surnames and Italian suffixes and to demonstrate the language contacts between Italian and other languages. As it can easily be guessed, most of the words investigated in this study were derived from names of American presidents as a result of the influence of American politics on the Italian system.
Multiculturalism in Italian brand names: a case study of sport products
Authors:   Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy, Cotticelli‑Kurras Paola
Published: January 2023

While it is true that Italian brand names traditionally included Italian as the prevalent language, nowadays we find other languages in the formation of Italian commercial names. As for the use of foreign linguistic material, the increasing spread of English in commercial names is due to the process of globalization. In fact, in addition to English, other languages are employed in hybrid irregular neologisms, in which words or morphemes belonging to different languages are connected. Our linguistic analysis will enable us to trace the boundaries of the multicultural dimension of the Italian brands of companies that make mountaineering products, collected in a database of 2000 items.
On the multicultural character of restaurant menus: a translational perspective
Authors:   West University of Timişoara, România, Cozma Mihaela
Published: January 2023

Starting from the reality that, in today’s globalized world, people have easy access to a wide range of cuisines from different cultures, the present paper discusses the multicultural nature of the menus offered by the Romanian restaurants, and especially by those specific to the Banat region, with the ultimate purpose of analysing the way in which food names of various origins are rendered in the English variants of these menus. The results of this analysis are relevant for the manner in which the various culture-specific features of restaurant menus are handled in the process of translation into a foreign language.
Naming and multiculturalism in jokes: how do the Romanians perceive others?
Authors:   Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, Centrul Universitar Nord Baia Mare, România, Felecan Daiana
Published: January 2023

In addition to its primary, objective function of individual identification, anthroponyms can also fulfil a social function, which implies the inclusion of several entities in a class based on their sharing – due to their belonging to the same ethnolinguistic culture – similar beliefs, habits, customs etc. This paper aims at recording the main names that Romanians employ in jokes (taken from the local onomasticon or from the name stocks of various ethnicities as a result of direct or indirect contact) and to identify their pragmatic functions. The name forms analysed are culture-bound specifying markers, i.e. names that are considered representative of the peoples to which this investigation refers. The author examines first names in humorous discourse, particularly in jokes. These onyms tend to lose their individual character and appellativise by means of deonymisation, as they metonymically define an ethnic/national community. At the same time, there are certain name substitutes, i.e. generic appellatives which behave as signs that identify every denotatum in a given community. Thus, several conclusions can be drawn about the way in which the Romanian people expresses/experiences multiculturalism on the level of the understanding/interpretation of the names (name substitutes) analysed.
ICONN – an example of multiculturalism in onomastics
Authors:   Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, Centrul Universitar Nord Baia Mare, România, Felecan Oliviu
Published: January 2023

The International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming” (ICONN) has reached its fifth edition. Since the year 2011, it has been illustrating multicultural connections in all the fields of onomastics. This study analyses the way in which, due to the diversity of participants and the multitude of the topics approached, ICONN covers all the areas of onomastics, with multiculturalism becoming a constant feature of this prestigious scientific event. The examination of the conference from the perspective of multiculturalism is also achieved with methods specific to scientometrics, based on statistical data significant in the context of this research.
Between identity and otherness. Stereotypical forms of ethnonyms
Authors:   Università “Babeş-Bolyai”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Istrate Mariana
Published: January 2023

We aim to investigate ethnic names from an interdisciplinary perspective embracing not only an onomastic viewpoint, but also an ethnological, anthropological and sociological one. Generally speaking, ethnonyms as group names are derived from toponyms, but their referents are the people who inhabit a specific geographical area and who have a particular cultural identity. Still, the identity of a group just like that of a person is validated only by referring it to a different one. Therefore, in addition to the official name (‘the endonym’), the others, who speak a different language and have a different culture and mindset, as a result of their way of perceiving the world, will employ an exonym, a word of their own creation which usually has nothing to do with the geographical area, but rather with the habits and customs of the inhabitants. Sometimes these onymic formulas may even become offensive and function as stereotypes which generalise and preserve not pertinent character traits, but collateral ones, in relation to the referent (the Scot = scrooge; the Brit = snob; the German = organised and precise; the Japanese = punctual; the Italian = associated with the Mafia; the Norwegian = cold and introverted). This phenomenon is found especially in multicultural environments where the convergence point of two cultures becomes a source of alterity also affecting the level of onomastics. We define by linguistic means the peculiarities of some peoples, i.e. the Italians, Americans, Romanians and Germans.
Enhancing students’ intercultural competence by means of proper names
Authors:   Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, Centrul Universitar Nord Baia Mare, România, Konradi Simona
Published: January 2023

The present paper suggests a possible way to enhance the development of students’ intercultural competences by means of proper names. Intercultural competence helps the individual to know oneself, first of all, by referring to the values of the community to which he or she belongs and then by referring to the others, by showing interest in and understanding for cultural differences. The diversity of the world we live in, the specifically human need for interaction and the existence of intercultural barriers lead to the idea that the development of intercultural competence is a necessity. The article presents the way in which we can contribute to the intercultural formation of students, by relying on an immediate reality, that of names as forms of expressing students’ linguistic and cultural identity. The study analyses the origin, typology and significance of the names of students from different cultural backgrounds, the story behind the choice of specific names, the association with famous bearers of certain names, and the cultural load of the names. By capitalising on proper names, one gains an experience of knowledge in the context of multiculturalism
Beer names between locality and multiculturalism
Authors:   Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, Centrul Universitar Nord Baia Mare, România, Munteanu Siserman Mihaela
Published: January 2023

The shifts which have appeared in Romanian culture after its transition to market economy can also be seen in language – for instance, in the choice of trade names. The corpus analysed draws attention to two aspects: on the one hand, the onomastic tendency of being conservative, which can be accounted for by the producers’ wish to preserve brand names, due to their connection with tradition or status as landmarks among local brands in the food industry: (the beer brands) Bucegi, Ursus, Silva, Azuga. On the other hand, Romanian beer brands mirror the openness towards a foreign market, which is (also) salient in the brand names and is underpinned by various reasons: (the beer brands) Bergenbier, Tuborg, Staropramen. At the same time, the emergence of craft beers has favoured the occurrence on the corresponding market of onomastic innovations and novel associations in the naming of these products.
Social and ideological aspect of choosing ship names in the 19th and 20th centuries
Authors:   Odesa State Agrarian University, Ukraine, Nasakina Svіtlana
Published: January 2023

The study looks at historical and onomastic aspects of ship names. The paper presents an overview of similar and different tendencies in Russian ship naming in the 19th century and after the revolutionary changes at the beginning of the 20th century. This study is based on the material taken from newspapers and books of those times containing names of ships and is concerned with the influence that social and cultural factors had on giving ship names.
A naming situation captured in episodic formulae: how a publisher accepted his funder’s suggestion as to how to name his small press (and later found out the Italian word had been the name of a little dog that ketchup heiress used to have)
Authors:   London, England, Nissan Ephraim
Published: January 2023

Episodic formulae are a representational technique that emerged from artificial intelligence in order to capture the gist of situations and epistemic states in a narrative plot. Arguably, this formalism can be applied as well to complex situations of name-bestowing and evolving perceptions of the name adopted. In the situation we analyse with epistemic formulae in this paper, the Manhattan entrepreneur who had launched a literary magazine and then found a very affluent funder for also starting a book operation, expectably felt obliged to accept her suggestion of a name for his firm. At the time, in New York City he could be expected to find out easily that the name Ecco was the Italian adverb ecco for ‘here is…’ or ‘here you go’ and so forth. Eventually, he found out that the ketchup heiress who funded him had suggested to him the name of her beloved little dog that she once owned. This time, it was private knowledge, rather than available knowledge. One can figure out (from general patterns of how people feel or behave) that she wanted a memorial for her dog, and the publisher could be expected to have made sense of that once aware, but it also brought to the fore how their balance of power affected what she could afford vis-à-vis him. The set of formulae shown here illustrates the potential for onomastic research to develop a rigorous representation for situational constellations of name-bestowing and bearing a name that thus far it could explain just informally in narrative form.
Names of saints and holidays in various Romanian ethnographic areas and cultural spaces
Authors:   Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, Centrul Universitar Nord Baia Mare, România, Răchişan Delia-Anamaria
Published: January 2023

The paper aims to highlight two aspects: on the one hand, to what extent names of saints interact with names of holidays in the Christian (Orthodox, Greek-Catholic, Roman-Catholic) calendar and in the folk calendar; on the other hand, whether names of saints and/or holidays in Romanian cultural space can be found in other cultural spaces. Upon looking at names of saints and holidays over the year in the calendars mentioned above, sometimes we notice similarities or contaminations, whereas on other occasions we come across differences. We focus our attention on twelve saints, correlated with twelve holidays over the year, celebrated by Christians regardless of religious confession and cultural space. The regional names of the holidays from various Romanian ethnographic areas attest to their age. The complexity of this research is underpinned by our synchronic analysis and interdisciplinary perspective (linguistics, ethnology, religion, mythology), which also refers to identity-otherness relationships, eponyms, isotopies, synonymy and antinomy connections, contamination and multiculturalism in onomastics.
A proposal for a modern multilingual gazetteer for the Portuguese-speaking countries
Authors:   CELGA-ILTEC, University of Coimbra, Salgueiro Agostinho , Ferreira José Pedro ,   CELGA-ILTEC, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Correia Margarita ,   FLUL, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Published: January 2023

A recently enforced orthographic agreement for Portuguese ended a century-long linguistic standardization divide within Portuguese-speaking countries. Over the past few years, for the first time ever, the development of shared language tools for all CPLP countries has been in progress. This includes the first standardized common toponymic resource, Vocabulário Toponímico (VT). But what about other languages sharing their space with Portuguese? Official toponymy in the CPLP space is pervasively recorded only in Portuguese, and in Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Timor-Leste, for instance, the most widely spoken languages are all but absent from gazetteers and place-name signs, perhaps by virtue of those languages largely sharing their lexical base with Portuguese. In this paper we address the conundrum of developing the first common normative toponymic resource for many Portuguese-speaking countries. We share arguments as to why it can be used as an adequate model for the toponymic codification of other languages spoken in the CPLP, as a common toponymic data platform and, from there, as a tool that can be used to strengthen linguistic diversity.
What do people want to know about names? Onomastic inquiries in the Czech Language Consulting Centre
Authors:   Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Štěpánová Veronika
Published: January 2023

Since as early as 1946, Czech language users have been able to consult their questions with the Czech Language Consulting Centre by phone. Since 2019, there is a software database available, making the unique data of obtained inquiries accessible to the public. This paper introduces those parts of this database that are connected with proper names (not only the origin and interpretation of proper names, but also their pronunciation, spelling, declension, etc.), identifies the categories of the most frequent queries and presents examples of questions. Onomastic inquiries are specific due to the fact that to answer them, an interdisciplinary approach, knowledge of foreign languages and orientation in the entire contemporary multicultural world are necessary.
Anthroponymy as an indicator of multiculturalism. Case study: the Latin-Catholic gymnasium in Bistriţa (1729–1779)
Authors:   Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, Centrul Universitar Nord Baia Mare, România, Felecan Nicolae
Published: January 2023

This paper dwells on the first names of Romanian students who attended the Latin-Catholic gymnasium in Bistriţa between the years 1729 and 1779. The onomastic data were collected from the records published by Virgil Şotropa in the newspaper Tribuna (1901, year XXXII, issues 1: 3 sqq.) and reprinted in the journal Arhiva Someşană (1940, issue 48: 47–63). The research does not deal with family names, as these are almost always replaced with the names of the students’ settlement or area of origin: Besenyö, Bistriciensis, Budatelek, Burgoiensis, Crajoviensis, Dobociensis, Kaczkiensis, Kajla, Nagy-Banya, Naszod, Naszodiensis, Radnensis, Somkuta, Tohatiensis, Tordensis, Transilvanus etc. The names analysed attest to the multicultural nature of anthroponymy since the early days of the existence of Confessional Records, Land Registries, Students’ Records etc.
Translation and categorial status of proper names in the novel The Carpathian Castle by Jules Verne
Authors:   Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, Centrul Universitar Nord Baia Mare, România, Bud Ioana
Published: January 2023

This paper aims at being a linguistic and discursive approach to the translation of proper names, having as support the novel The Carpathian Castle by Jules Verne. The analysis will look at the techniques used in the translation of the proper names in the aforementioned novel, focusing on the bilingual and multicultural assimilation between Romanian and Hungarian. On the one hand, this assimilation determines the phonetic changes which occur as a result of the translation of proper names and draws attention to the uncertain categorial status of proper names, given the fact that they may be considered to function as appellatives. On the other hand, based on the assimilation between Romanian and Hungarian, the paper will examine the choices made by the author upon translating proper names, especially toponyms, from Romanian into Hungarian and German (see, for instance, Klausenburg and Kolosvar for Cluj(-Napoca), Hermanstadt for Sibiu etc.). Last but not least, the study analyses the references established by proper names, as well as the idea of class/nickname and the metonymic use of proper names by means of translation.
Translating film titles: between language conversion and name coinage
Authors:   Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, North University Centre of Baia Mare, Romania, Bugheşiu Alina
Published: January 2023

The paper analyses the translation of film titles from English into Romanian in the context of globalisation and multiculturalism, from the perspective of translation studies, onomastics, semantics, and semiotics. With the help of concepts and precepts pertaining to the aforementioned fields, the research aims at exploring how certain film titles can be viewed as new names (novel linguistic signs) based on their specific semantic content and behaviour. Regardless of their lexical-semantic status, film titles prove to be cultural mediators, facilitating the communication of meaning (i.e., social, ethical, political, economic, etc. values) from the source language and culture to the target ones.
Names and naming from the viewpoint of intercultural pragmatics: the Romanian system of anthroponyms
Authors:   Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” al Academiei Române, Bucureşti, Manu Magda Margareta
Published: January 2023

This paper discusses several aspects of the evolution of anthroponyms from the perspective of intercultural pragmatics. The first section of the article defines intercultural anthroponymy and its system of concepts. Special attention is paid to the concept of cultureme and its discursive function. The second part of the paper establishes the main orientations and results of this recent field of research, in which the Internet and the phenomenon of globalization are two determining elements. The third part of the article is dedicated to corpus analysis and reveals the specifics of Romanian onomastics over the last years. The author proposes a view on Romanian recent onomastic research which treats anthroponyms as a subcategory of culturemes.
Facets of proper names. A syntactic and semantic-referential perspective
Authors:   Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Department of English, Oltean Ștefan
Published: January 2023

The paper proposes an interpretation within a syntactic and semantic framework of the logical and grammatical status of proper names (PNs) in their conventional and unconventional uses. In doing so, it addresses the semantics of proper names first, which are seen to be unstructured linguistic expressions, with no inherent meaning or sense; their sole function is to denote an individual directly. However, proper names have multiple uses that challenge this narrow acceptation. They often refer to sets of entities and display a behavior characteristic of common names, expressing properties of the bearer of the name, or denote individuals in fictions in their fictional uses. The notion of proper name thus turns out to be an umbrella term that subsumes different categories of nominals, some functioning as unstructured directly referring linguistic expressions, while others are structured and identify the referent(s) descriptively.
Model of Critical Success Factors (CSFs) Influencing Food Inspection Management in UAE
Authors:   Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, Abdulla Almahrooqi Fahed Khamis , Arif Sazelin ,   Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Zainudin Mohamad Zahir ,   Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
Published: January 2023

Muslims abide by strict dietary regulations that specify that the foods must be Halal for the consumption by Muslims. Previous research has shown that there is no definite or appropriate model of Critical Success Factors (CSFs) related to halal food inspection. The success of a project is largely dependent on critical factors, which primarily track the project's development from the ground up (Ahsen et al. 2021). As a result, this study employed a quantitative approach to formulate a structural model of success factors that halal food authorities can use to optimise their inspection model, with a focus on training and development. The factors that affect/influence halal food inspection management, particularly when dealing with packaged food and halal certificates were identified through literature work. Questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data that was used in the formulation of the model. The Critical Success Factors (CSFs) model, which was created tested and validated using SEM-AMOS software. The model has seven constructs (independent variables) and one dependent variable of the management of halal food inspection, thus having seven hypotheses. It was discovered that five out of seven of the hypotheses are were supported. These findings aid in the discovery of new information to several parties like managers, employees with progressively less experience, and local and foreign halal food inspectors, as well as curriculum and infrastructure beliefs, and how these effects affect opportunities and motivation. The study contributes significantly to UAE and global research community.
ELEMENTOS ESSENCIAIS PARA ADESÃO TERAPÊUTICA DE PACIENTES COM INSUFICIÊNCIA CARDÍACA NA ALTA HOSPITALAR: REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA
Authors: Moreira Gomes Isabel , De Moraes Bezerra Adriana , Araujo Lopes Caroline , Vieira Silva Karliene , Cavalcante dos Santos Kauane , Mendes de Paula Pessoa Vera Lúcia
Published: January 2023

Objetivo: identificar por meio da literatura científica quais elementos a serem inseridos em uma tecnologia educacional para auxiliar na adesão terapêutica de pacientes com Insuficiência Cardíaca (IC) na alta hospitalar. Método: revisão integrativa da literatura realizada durante o mês de janeiro de 2021. Foram utilizados para a busca uma associação de 4 descritores de assunto do Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) da National Library of Medicine (NLM) e National Institutes of Health (NIH), sendo dois controlados (“Heart Failure” e “Patient Discharge") e dois não controlados (“Treatment Adherence and Compliance” e “Educational Technology”). Realizou-se como estratégia de busca o cruzamento aos pares e um trio com o operador booleano “AND” para associação dos descritores. Resultados: houve prevalência de estudos desenvolvidos por enfermeiros, evidenciando aspectos que contribuem para a maior adesão de pacientes com IC. Para tanto, os elementos essenciais para a adesão terapêutica extraído dos artigos foram categorizados em: tratamento farmacológico, tratamento não-farmacológico, orientações clínicas sobre a IC, comunicação com os pacientes e familiares, autonomia do paciente para o cuidado. Considerações Finais: foi possível identificar que a construção de uma tecnologia educacional para pacientes com IC que estão de alta hospitalar deve ser fundamentada em diferentes dimensões do cuidado.
ENVELHECIMENTO E SOLIDÃO: NARRATIVAS DE IDOSOS NÃO INSTITUCIONALIZADOS
Authors: Barrozo Cassol Paulo , Linhares Garcia Edna , Beatriz Soares de Lima Suzinara
Published: January 2023

Objetivo: conhecer a percepção dos idosos sobre o envelhecimento e a solidão. Métodos: trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória e descritiva realizada com 12 idosos não institucionalizados atendidos em consultas em um ambulatorio de um Hospital Público no sul do Brasil. Para a produção dos dados foi utilizada a entrevista semidirigida, gravada no período de setembro e outubro de 2021. As entrevistas foram transcritas e analisadas pela análise de conteúdo tematico proposto por Minayo. Resultados: evidenciaram que envelhecimento cronológico não é vivenciado como um fator limitante, indicando assim uma perspectiva positiva em relação ao próprio envelhecimento. A solidão é compreendia como a falta de companhia. E a depressão como potencializadora da solidão. Considerações Finais: foram constatadas repercussões importantes em que a solidão gera maiores impactos do que a própria percepção sobre o envelhecer.
Comparative study of potent anti-amoebic and anti-inflammatory activities of different extracts from Sida rhombifolia (L)
Authors: Pechangou Nsangou Sylvain , Ndiandoukoue Ndam Roukayatou , Mfotie Njoya Emmanuel , Enang II Brice E. , Njayou Frederic N. , Fewou Moundipa Paul
Published: January 2023

Background: Sida rhombifolia (L) is a medicinal plant from tropical regions belonging to the Malvaceae family and the plantea kingdom. It is known for its multiple pharmacological properties. The aim of this work was to evaluate the anti-amoebic, and anti-inflammatory potential of Sida rhombifolia aqueous and ethanolic leaf and stem extracts harvested in two localities of Cameroon (Yaoundé and Massangam in the Centre and West regions, respectively). Methods: The anti-amoebic activity was evaluated on a polyxenic culture of Entamoeba histolytica. A primary macrophage culture activated by Saccharomyces cereviseae (SC) was used to evaluate anti-inflammatory potential of the plant extracts. Macrophages were treated with different concentrations (1; 10; 100 and 500 μg/mL) of the extracts for the inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) production and 5-lipoxygenase activity. Methods: The anti-amoebic activity was evaluated on a polyxenic culture of Entamoeba histolytica. A primary macrophage culture activated by Saccharomyces cereviseae (SC) was used to evaluate the anti-inflammatory potential of the plant extracts. Macrophages were treated with different concentrations (1; 10; 100 and 500 μg/mL) of the extracts for the inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) production and 5-lipoxygenase activity. Results: No significant difference was found between the anti-amoebic activity of the ethanolic extract of Yaoundé (Centre region, IC50 = 7.71 μg/mL) and that of ethanolic leaf extract from Massagam (West region IC50 = 7.77 μg/mL) after 72 hours. Among the extracts, ethanolic leaf extracts exhibited the highest anti-amoebic activity after 72 hours of treatment. Metronidazole showed better activity (IC50 = 5.96 µg/mL) in the same periods of time. Phenolic compounds and flavonoid contents were higher in Yaoundé (Centre region) ethanolic leaf extract, proving that these extracts can prevent certain damages linked to a state of oxidative stress. The ethanolic extracts of the leaves significantly inhibited NO production and 5-lipoxygenase activity in macrophages (IC50 of 3.85 µg/mL; 3.99 µg/mL and 36.64 µg/mL; 73.22 µg/mL respectively). Conclusion: This preliminary study shows that the ethanolic extract of S. rhombifolia possesses better anti-amoebic properties and can act at the level of the intestinal mucosa in order to fight against the damage linked to the dysfunction of the inflammatory cells.
Pinpointing the problem: Providing page numbers for citations as a crucial part of open science
Authors: Xiao Leon Y. , Ballou Nick
Published: January 2023

Open science is a movement that is transcending disciplines. As a legal scholar engaged in empirical research, I have adopted many good practices from other fields that have engaged with the need to enhance transparency, reproducibility and credibility at an earlier stage. I believe that open science should be a continued dialogue between disciplines, and that we can all learn from each other. As I have learned to publicly share data and analysis scripts, preregister my hypotheses, and conduct studies using the registered report format from other disciplines, I believe that others can adopt at least one good practice from the legal discipline (which is also conventionally crucial to the methods of many humanities disciplines).It is very simple: provide page numbers for references cited in-text.