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# Names 2020 — papers

The works of Names published in 2020 that our library holds (publisher: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh): 1 work, listed below with the most cited first; each has a page with our summary, its key points and its references.

[**36** works that year](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/names/2020/#works) · [**0** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/names/2020/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Corpus Linguistic Onomastics: A Plea for a Corpus-Based Investigation of Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1731240)**Heiko Motschenbacher*47 citations*
2. **[Changing Names: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1771147)**Grant W. Smith*35 citations*
3. **[Socio-Onomastics: The Pragmatics of Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2019.1643136)**I. M. Nick*29 citations*
4. **[Name This Child: Religious Identity and Ideology in Tiv Personal Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1731239)**Eyo Offiong Mensah*23 citations*
5. **[Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1731241)**Heiko Motschenbacher*10 citations*
6. **[Ambivalence, Avoidance, and Appeal: Alliterative Aspects of Anglo Anthroponyms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1775471)**Stephen J. Bush*9 citations*
7. **[On Sound Symbolism in Baseball Player Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1759353)**Stephanie S. Shih, Deniz Rudin*8 citations*
8. **[WeChat Usernames: An Exploratory Study of Users’ Selection Practices ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1758493)**Xing Xu, He Qing Huang, Ting Jiang et al.*8 citations*
9. **[“Boundary-Maintenance” or “Boundary-Crossing”? Name-Giving Practices among Immigrants in Germany ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1849925)**Jürgen Gerhards, Julia Tuppat*8 citations*
10. **[Urbanonyms and Their Linguistic Properties in Italian ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1811049)**Francesco‐Alessio Ursini, Haiping Long*6 citations*

## All works of the year (36)

The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Corpus Linguistic Onomastics: A Plea for a Corpus-Based Investigation of Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1731240)**Heiko Motschenbacher*47 citations*
2. **[Changing Names: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1771147)**Grant W. Smith*35 citations*
3. **[Socio-Onomastics: The Pragmatics of Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2019.1643136)**I. M. Nick*29 citations*
4. **[Name This Child: Religious Identity and Ideology in Tiv Personal Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1731239)**Eyo Offiong Mensah*23 citations*
5. **[Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1731241)**Heiko Motschenbacher*10 citations*
6. **[Ambivalence, Avoidance, and Appeal: Alliterative Aspects of Anglo Anthroponyms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1775471)**Stephen J. Bush*9 citations*
7. **[On Sound Symbolism in Baseball Player Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1759353)**Stephanie S. Shih, Deniz Rudin*8 citations*
8. **[WeChat Usernames: An Exploratory Study of Users’ Selection Practices ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1758493)**Xing Xu, He Qing Huang, Ting Jiang et al.*8 citations*
9. **[“Boundary-Maintenance” or “Boundary-Crossing”? Name-Giving Practices among Immigrants in Germany ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1849925)**Jürgen Gerhards, Julia Tuppat*8 citations*
10. **[Urbanonyms and Their Linguistic Properties in Italian ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1811049)**Francesco‐Alessio Ursini, Haiping Long*6 citations*
11. **[The Symbolic Power of Place Names: The Case of the River Olše/Olza/Łolza in Northeastern Czechia ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1786925)**Přemysl Mácha*4 citations*
12. **[Black Rising: An Editorial Note on the Increasing Popularity of a US American Racial Ethnonym ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1787613)**I. M. Nick*3 citations*
13. **[Simplex Generic Toponyms in Four English-speaking Jurisdictions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1731243)**Jan Tent*3 citations*
14. **[Women’s Marital Surname Change by Bride’s Age and Jurisdiction of Residence: A Replication ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1751442)**Melanie MacEacheron*3 citations*
15. **[Lexico-Cultural Variations in Product Naming: A Note on the Names of Handcrafted Soaps ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1751458)**Lindsey N. H. Chen*2 citations*
16. **[Naming the Sacred: Religious Toponymy in History, Theology and Politics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1814664)**Brandon Simonson*2 citations*
17. **[The Adoption of non-Chinese Names as Identity Markers of Chinese International Students in Japan: A Case Study at a Japanese Comprehensive Research University ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1840908)**Jinyan Chen*2 citations*
18. **[The Linguistics of Name Translation: Preferred Personal and Business Names in English, Korean, and Chinese ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1731242)**Jong-mi Kim*2 citations*
19. **[“A Change of Name during Sickness”: Surveying the Widespread Practice of Renaming in Response to Physical Illness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1852067)**Russell Fielding*2 citations*
20. **[“Harry, You Must Stop Living in the Past:” Names as Acts of Recall in John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1794248)**Peter Backhaus*2 citations*
21. **[A Preliminary Study on the Nicknames of the FIFA National Football Teams ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1751457)**Wang Feng, Zhang Shuyue, Cheng Chen*1 citation*
22. **[In the Name of Freedom: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Personal Names Recorded in Fugitive Slave Advertisements Published in New York and New Jersey 18th Century Newspapers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1779529)**I. M. Nick*1 citation*
23. **[Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island. ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1735811)**Luisa Caiazzo*1 citation*
24. **[Of the Same Breath: Indigenous Animal and Place Names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1814665)**Thomas J. Gasque*1 citation*
25. **[A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America ↗](https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2020.1828530)**Beth DiNatale Johnson

[See all 36 papers in Names 2020 — papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/names/2020/papers/)

## Works with our summary in our library (1)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Personal Names in the Aramaic Inscriptions of Hatra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simonson-2020-personal-names-aramaic-inscriptions-hatra/) [Names](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/names/)**Brandon Simonson*2020*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/aramaic/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Boston University** Boston · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/boston-university/)

works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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