The Language of Names
Subtitle: What We Call Ourselves and Why It Matters
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed edition
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: March 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780684838670
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Psychological aspects; Identity (Psychology); Reference; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Genealogy; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Names, Personal; Psycholinguistics
First sentence: Dan Jansen, the winner of a gold medal for one-thousand-meter speed skating in the 1994 Olympics, drew from a well of primitive behavior patterns when he took a victory lap holding in his arms the infant daughter he had named after his sister Jane, who had died the morning of Jansen's crushing defeat six years earlier.