Dissertations / Theses: 'Names, history'

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Wmffre, I. L. "Language and history in Cardiganshire place-names." Thesis, Swansea University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636679.

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The thesis concerns itself with the phonetic realisations of Welsh place-names and is based on a large corpus of Welsh place-names collected in the county of Cardiganshire/Ceredigion (Wales, UK), with extensive references to the pronunciation of Welsh place-names outside the county. After discussing the varying conventions adopted by Welsh phoneticians of the past century and a half, improvements in International Phonetic Association notation for Welsh are suggested. The body of the thesis deals with the main features that characterise the pronunciation of Welsh place-names. Since place-names are anchored both in space and time the study of place-name forms give a dynamic picture of the evolution of language. Some new conclusions on the evolution of the Welsh language are advanced, with suggestions as to the motivation behind these changes. It establishes the connection between the Welsh of the Medieval period and the present-day dialects, and complements K.H. Jackson's Language and History in Early Modern Britain (1953) and J. Morris-Jones' A Welsh Grammar (1913), neither of which dealt methodically with the development of Welsh after the Medieval period. The emphasis on place-names rather than literary texts gives a different - I believe more reliable - standpoint from which to chart phonetic developments in language. The methodical description given to attested phonetic developments in Welsh place-names should constitute a useful tool for toponymists to elucidate Welsh place-names which otherwise seem opaque. By demonstrating the underlying patterns of phonetic development in Welsh the study hopes to dispel the notion that the disconcerting variety of place-name forms are mere dialectisms, localisms, or even corruptions. Included is the corpus of place-names which contains some 15,000 headworks. Each headword is followed by a location by grid-reference, often by a notation of pronunciation phonetic script, by historical forms, and often by a discussion of etymologies.

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Wood, Mark Steven. "Bernician narratives : place-names, archaeology and history." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/794.

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This thesis concerns Bernicia and the transition from a Roman-dominated frontier zone at the beginning of the 5th century to an Anglian kingdom by the early 7th century. This is a period of great change and complexity where the current state of knowledge is limited and unsatisfactory. There is considerable scope for new research to contribute towards knowledge and understanding of this difficult area of transition. To achieve this aim, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted here that maximises existing evidential sources but focuses particularly on place-names, something that has not been done before.

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CAMARA, SERGIO ANTONIO. "NIETZSCHE OR ALL THE NAMES IN THE HISTORY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=6682@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Esta tese procura explorar a experiência da subjetividade à luz das interpretações de Nietzsche sobre a história. O texto está desenvolvido em três partes. A primeira parte trata do papel do indivíduo no pensamento do jovem Nietzsche. A segunda propõe uma aproximação com a sua crítica da cultura por meio de uma leitura de Goethe e Dostoievski. A questão que orienta a terceira parte é baseada na sua autobiografia, Ecce homo, compreendida como uma atitude radical com relação à experiência da subjetividade.
This thesis intends to explore the experience of subjectivity in the light of Nietzsche's interpretations about history. The text is developed in three parts. The first one is about the role of individual in Nietzsche's early thought. The second part proposes an approach to his critique of culture through a reading of Goethe and Dostoievski. The question that guides the third part is based on his autobiography, Ecce homo, as a radical attitude toward the experience of subjectivity.

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Elitzur, Yoel. "Ancient place names in the Holy Land preservation and history /." Jerusalem : Winona Lake, Indiana : the Hebrew University Magnes Press ; Eisenbrauns, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39200608c.

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Basé sur la thèse (Ph.D.) de l'auteur (Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim, 1993), dont le titre est : Shemot meḳomot ʻatiḳim she-nishtamru befi ha-ʻArvim ba-arets.
Bibliogr. p. [388]-409. Index.

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Cox, Richard Anthony Victor. "Place-names of the Carloway Registery, Isle of Lewis." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278420.

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Smith-Bannister, Scott. "Names and naming patterns in England, 1538 to 1700." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315015.

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McNiven, Peter Edward. "Gaelic place-names and the social history of Gaelic speakers in medieval Menteith." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2685/.

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This thesis illustrates that place-names are an essential resource for our understanding of Scottish medieval rural society, with a particular emphasis on Menteith. Place-names are an under-utilised resource in historical studies, and yet have much to inform the historian or archaeologist of how people used and viewed the medieval landscape. We know a great deal of the upper echelons of Scottish medieval society, especially the politics, battles, and lives of significant figures, such as various kings and great barons. However, we know next to nothing of the people from whom the nobility derived their power. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part 1 begins by defining the extent and geography of the medieval earldom of Menteith. The source material is analysed, highlighting the advantages and pitfalls of different sources that can be used for place-name studies. The different languages spoken in Menteith in the Middle Ages, ranging from P-Celtic to Scottish Gaelic to Scots, can be seen in the onomastic evidence. A crucial question that is explored, if not fully answered, is ‘what P-Celtic language was spoken in Menteith: British or Pictish?’. This is followed by an exploration of what we know of the Gaelic language in Menteith. Documents and place-names allow us to pinpoint the beginnings of the change from Gaelic to Scots as the naming language in the area to the later 15th C. A brief survey of the historical background shows the influence the earls of Menteith and other nobles may have had on the languages of the earldom. The final two chapters of Part 1 look at the issue of using place-names as a historical resource; Chapter 5 explores secular activities, such as hunting and agriculture. Chapter 6 is a case study examining how place-names can inform us of the medieval church. Part 2 is a survey of the place-names of the six parishes that consisted of the medieval earldom of Mentieth, including early forms and analysis of the names.

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Watson, Angus. "Place-names, land and lordship in the medieval earldom of Strathearn." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11331.

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The first aim of this thesis is to present a comprehensive toponymic listing and analysis for six parishes of Western Strathearn, and this is done in Part One where approximately 2500 place-names are considered. The medieval parishes of BQR, COM, TEX, MUT, MZX and MXZ form a continuous, largely upland, area, topographically distinct from the Strathearn parishes to the east, and with the exception of Innerpeffray (part of MXZ, see esp. Part Two, Appendix 1b) somewhat less affected, in the 12c to 14c at least, by inward migration of Anglo-Norman and other non-Gaelic groups or individuals. Thus we might expect this western area to be the most conservative part of an earldom that Cynthia Neville has characterised as conservative and insular as late as 13c when compared to other major Scottish earldoms and lordships (Neville 1983, eg vol i, 156, Neville 2000, 76). The core lands of the more easterly medieval parish of FOW were subjected to the same comprehensive toponymic analysis. Though that toponymic material could not be included for reasons of space, it has contributed, along with the material from the six parishes covered in the gazetteers below, to the second main aspect of the thesis, the discussion of lordship and land organisation in Part Two. In Part Two will also be found an introduction to the earldom of Strathearn and a discussion of a number of aspects of its history, as well as appendices giving additional information relevant to the topics discussed in the body of the thesis. The parish unit was chosen as the basis for the organisation of this thesis since John Rogers (Rogers 1992, esp. 125-7) has shown the fundamental link between the form of the ecclesiastical parishes, whose creation was complete by 12c, and pre-existing units of land usually referred to as multiple estates, a multiple estate being a group of individual estates, not necessarily contiguous, organised and operated as a coherent social, tenurial and economic unit. As Rogers puts it, multiple estates were essentially units of lordship, taking the form of a principal settlement or caput with a number of dependent settlements. They contained within their bounds all the resources required to support their economies and to produce the necessary renders. Accordingly they were arranged in the landscape to exploit those resources, a process which often produced irregular geographical forms, including areas detached from the main body of the estate. This process frequently led to a specialisation of function, such as the management of pasture, amongst the component settlements. Jones (1976) discusses the multiple estate in the context of the early British Isles, Dodgshon (1981, esp. 58ff) in a Scottish context. The latter writer says (op. cit., 58) that in their variety of scale, multiple estates have often been likened to a parish, though some were undoubtedly larger, adding that lordship was exercised over them by a tribal chief, a king or a feudal baron. Many of these characteristics will be found relevant to the discussion of land organisation and lordship in Part Two. In our present state of knowledge, then, the medieval parishes are the best representation we have of the patterns of land organisation in Strathearn as they may have been in the time of the late Pictish and early Scottish kingdoms. A practical demonstration of the relevance of parish boundaries lies in the fact that it is rare indeed to find a settlement place-name whose area of reference straddles the boundary of a medieval parish. It is overwhelmingly within the context of the original parish that the place-names of an area have coherence and are most likely to give up their secrets.

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Robertson, Bruce G. "Personal names as evidence for Athenian social and political history ca. 507-300 B.C." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0016/NQ53894.pdf.

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Keith, Darren. "Inuit place names and land-use history on the Harvaqtuuq [Kazan River], Nunavut Territory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0032/MQ64162.pdf.

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Keith, Darren E. (Darren Edward) 1967. "Inuit place names and land-use history on the Harvaqtuuq (Kazan River), Nunavut Territory." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30180.

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This thesis classifies Inuit place names and analyses their meanings to reveal Harvaqtuurmiut land-use history on the Harvaqtuuq [Kazan River], Nunavut Territory. The author collected previously unrecorded toponyms from the territory of this Caribou Inuit society, the Harvaqtuuq [Kazan River], and corroborated the data of earlier researchers. The Harvaqtuuq landscape was organized from foci of subsistence activities by application of Inuktitut geographical terminology and concepts. These foci moved over time and betray changing land-use patterns. The Harvaqtuuq was a frontier for Inuit, due to the need to depend on caribou, and due to the conflict engendered by overlapping Dene occupation. The presence of anthroponyms, and the paucity of pan-Inuit myths in the landscape allow for the speculative interpretation that the names support current theories of a recent arrival of Inuit to the Harvaqtuuq .

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McKay, Patrick. "The names of the parishes and townlands of the baronies of Upper and Lower Toome, Co.Antrim." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304652.

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Chan, Hoi-wuen Katherine, and 陳凱媛. "Consciousness of language." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B32020491.

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Olofsson, Anna-Maria. "Manchester vs : London - The etymology of the place-names of the two areas in connection with British history." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1736.

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The fact that five invasions have taken place in Great Britain, which all made a big impact on the country, makes the history of place-names particularly interesting. The aim of this essay is therefore to compare place-names in the Manchester area and the London area, and try to find the origin of the names. An additional aim is to find out which foreign invasion, if any, has coloured the areas the most.

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Kwong, Oi-ping, and 鄺嬡萍. "Foreigners' activity in Hong Kong before the Second WorldWar." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29717462.

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Rome, Lisa. "Settling differences : a comparative study of Yorkshire and East Anglia, focusing on the Scandinavaian influence on place-names and coins." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1489.

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Hartveit, Marit. "The lesser names : the teachers of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and other aspects of Scottish mathematics, 1867–1946." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1700.

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The Edinburgh Mathematical Society started out in 1883 as a society with a large proportion of teachers. Today, the member base is mainly academical and there are only a few teachers left. This thesis explores how and when this change came about, and discusses what this meant for the Society. It argues that the exit of the teachers is related to the rising standard of mathematics, but even more to a change in the Society’s printing policy in the 1920s, that turned the Society’s Proceedings into a pure research publication and led to the death of the ‘teacher journal’, the Mathematical Notes. The thesis also argues that this change, drastic as it may seem, does not represent a change in the Society’s nature. For this aim, the role of the teachers within the Society has been studied and compared to that of the academics, from 1883 to 1946. The mathematical contribution of the teachers to the Proceedings is studied in some detail, in particular the papers by John Watt Butters. A paper in the Mathematical Notes by A. C. Aitken on the Bell numbers is considered in connection with a series of letters on the same topic from 1938–39. These letters, written by Aitken, Sir D’Arcy Thompson, another EMS member, and the Cambridge mathematician G. T. Bennett, explores the relation between the three and gives valuable insight into the status of the Notes. Finally, the role of the first women in the Society is studied. The first woman joined without any official university education, but had received the necessary mathematical background from her studies under the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women. The final chapter is largely an assessment of this Association’s mathematical classes.

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Henry, Kevin A. "Exploring population structure and migration with surnames : Quebec, 1621-1900." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85167.

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This research uses isonymy (same-surname) methods and models to examine the population structure and migratory history of Quebec, Canada. Through a case study using 1765 and 1881 census and marriage records from 1621-1900, I explore the accuracy of sources as well as develop, test and apply different statistical methods, and experiment with mapping techniques that reveal paths and patterns of French Canadian surnames. Each investigation explores and evaluates a particular method. I noted that multivariate methods, including cluster analysis, relevance networks, and correspondence analysis, not traditionally used in surname analysis offer reliable and informative results, and insights into the hierarchical structure of populations not easily gleaned from traditional surname methods. The spatial and temporal components of Quebec surname distributions revealed that groups of names which populate and distinguish certain regions were in place by 1800, and cross-river relatedness became less significant as the population expanded upstream away from the St. Lawrence River. I also found that surnames unique to certain regions remained strongly clustered until the mid-nineteenth century when urbanization and the settlement of new territory led to the fusion of name pools (diversification) in and around urban areas, while at the same time causing losses of names in some rural areas. The marriage records provided evidence, through their measure of random mating, that surnames within different regions in Quebec continually diversified throughout the nineteenth century. Overall, I found surnames to be an informative variable for inferring population relatedness and migratory paths. Because surnames are readily available in a number of sources researchers involved with historical migration research should find that the methods presented in this work will provide a time-saving technique which can overcome the restrictions of spatial and temporal scale an

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Haby, Joakim. "Är vi på rätt väg? : Historiebruk bland Budapests gatunamnsändringar i det postkommunistiska Ungern." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-38833.

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In this qualitative thesis I have studied the process of street-naming in Budapest. I have done this primarily through examining legislative and street name records in Budapest in order to define a distinctive use of history. In an attempt to concretise public opinion, I designed and distributed a succinct questionnaire and used newspaper articles to create a clear view of the political milieu. Furthermore, I have utilised a typological method to summarise the use of history and elucidate the results. I came to the conclusion that a moral and, to some extent, ideological use of history is dominating the street-naming situation in contemporary Budapest. My analysis also showed a discrepancy between decision-makers and citizens regarding the handling of odonyms.
I denna kvalitativa analys har jag undersökt processen kring gatunamnsbyten i Budapest. Främst har jag studerat lagstiftning och gatunamnsregister i Budapest för att finna ett centralt historiebruk. Jag har sekundärt även skapat en mindre enkät och gått igenom ett begränsat antal tidningar för att få fram en folklig opinion i relation till beslutsfattningen. Jag har operationaliserat en beprövad historiebrukstypologi för att kunna konkretisera resultatet. Jag kom fram till slutsatsen att ett moraliskt och, i viss mån, även ett ideologiskt historiebruk dominerar hanteringen av gatunamn i dagens Budapest. Analysen visade också att det råder en diskrepans mellan beslutsfattares och invånares syn på hanteringen av odonymer.

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Hagervall, Claes Börje. "Studier över bebyggelsenamn i Västerbottens län." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, 1986. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-82592.

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The thesis consists of the following papers: (1) Tre ortnamn på Spöl-. (Tre Kulturer. 2. Medlemsbokför Johan Nordlander-sällskapet tillägnad minnet av Roland Otterbjörk 1925-1984. Umeå 1985. ISSN 0281-9546.) (2) Ortnamnen i Västerbottens län. Del 14, Vännäs kommun, A Bebyggelsenamn. Umeå 1986. ISBN 91-86372-10-6. (Övre Norrlands ortnamn. ISSN 0348-7237.) (3) Studier över yngre nybyggesnamn i Västerbottens län, särskilt i Vännäs socken. Umeå 1986. ISBN 91-7174-237-9. (Nordsvenska. 2. Skrifter utgivna av Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Umeå universitet. ISSN 0282-7182.) The chief aim of the thesis is to describe and etymologize the habitative names in the parish of Vännäs in the county of Västerbotten, northern Sweden. The material used consists of place-name forms recorded in the local dialects. The material forms the basis of the author's hypotheses concerning sound changes and morphological changes and the original significance of the various place-names. The hypotheses have been tested by confronting them with historical data concerning the settlement of the area, with linguistic material, with parallel place-names and with topographical data. The purpose of the third paper is to draw further conclusions about the naming of the younger settlements (i.e. settlements from the 18th and the 19th centuries) in the county of Västerbotten as a whole. To shed light on this problem a large number of similar younger habitative names in the area have been examined. The main result of this study is that a number of the second elements of these names can be considered topographically non-motivated and suffixlike. Another result is that the interference from the authorities concerning the direct naming of the young settlements is probably insignificant.
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Bedocs, Justin A. "Names and Geographic Features: An Internship with the U.S. Geological Survey." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1452529967.

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Karim, Taisir Mahmudo 1962. "Dos nomes à história - o processo constitutivo de um estado = Mato Grosso = From names to history - the constitutive process of a stade : Mato Grosso." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270579.

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Orientador: Eduardo Roberto Junqueira Guimarães
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Neste trabalho, refletimos sobre a questão dos sentidos constitutivos dos espaços urbanos - as cidades - nos acontecimentos de sua nomeação, a partir da perspectiva da Semântica do Acontecimento. Tomamos como materialidade linguística para as análises, os nomes atribuídos ao Estado e às cidades do Mato Grosso. Analisamos o processo de semantização desses nomes a partir do seu funcionamento e assim, procuramos mostrar de que modo esse movimento semântico constrói sentidos que passam a significar o espaço urbano caracterizando-o, como a identidade do Estado/cidade e dos que ali vivem. Pontualmente, buscamos mostrar a constituição da rede semântica designativa do acontecimento de nomeação construída nas relações enunciativas do funcionamento do nome. Assim, tratamos a questão do acontecimento de nomeação das cidades, levando-se em conta essa rede que se apresenta no movimento constitutivo do relevo semântico dos nomes. De um lado, tratamos das estruturas formais dos nomes, mostramos o modo como uma palavra ou expressão se constitui em um nome (o funcionamento de sua estrutura morfossintática), de outro, analisamos o movimento designativo dos nomes (funcionamento semânticoenunciativo). Mostramos que esse processo de semantização dos nomes considera os sentidos como constituídos na enunciação compreendida como um acontecimento histórico-social. Dessa forma, evidenciamos, a partir dessa reflexão, o funcionamento designativo no acontecimento de nomeação desses espaços urbanos - as cidades - considerando o conflito político próprio da linguagem, construído incessantemente nas relações enunciativas entre sujeitos da língua nas práticas sociais. Mostramos, assim, em que medida palavras ou expressões, ao significarem na tensão desse conflito, podem ou não se sobrepor uma em relação às outras e se estabilizar enquanto nome, e a partir dessa estabilidade, de que modo os sentidos dos nomes, instalados no conflito fizeram e fazem parte das histórias que constroem a própria história de significação dos nomes que dão existência à identidade sócio-histórica do Estado de Mato Grosso e de suas cidades
Abstract: In this work, we propose a reflection about the constitutive senses of the urban space - the cities - also, in the events of its nomination, by the light of Semantics of the Event. We assumed the names assigned to the State and the cities of Mato Grosso as linguistic materiality for this analyses. We analyze the semantic process of these names right from their functioning and thus, we show the way this semantic movement constructs senses that shall mean the urban space featuring it, as the identity of the State/City and of those who live there. Actually, we aim to show the formation of the designative semantic naming network of the event which is constructed by/in the enunciatively relations of the functioning of the names. So that we treat the issue of naming event of cities, taking into account this network that presents itself in a constitutive movement of the semantic relief of the names. On the other hand, we treat the formal structures of the names, as we show how a word or phrase turns itself into a name (the functioning of its morphsyntactic structure), on the other, we analyze the designative movement of the names (the semantic-enunciatively functioning). We show that this semantic process of the names considers the senses as constituted in the enunciation understood as a socialhistoric event. This way, we present evidence over this reflection, of the designative functioning of the event in the naming of these urban spaces - the cities - considering the political conflict intrinsic of the language itself, incessantly built in enunciatively relations between subjects of language in social practices. We show thus, the extent to which words or phrases, by the time they mean in the tension of this conflict, may or may not overlap each other and get itself stabilized as names. And right from this stability, to show how the meanings of names, installed in the conflict, have been and still are part of the stories that build the history of the meaning of the names itself which give life to the social-historical identity of the State of Mato Grosso and its cities
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Charland, Philippe. "Définition et reconstitution de l'espace territorial du nord-est amériquain : la reconstruction de la carte du W8banaki par la toponymie abénakise au Québec Aln8baïwi Kdakina-- notre monde à la manière abénakise." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85138.

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This thesis relates to the reconstitution and the definition of the Northeast of America's territorial space. The main objective is the reconstruction of the Abenaki's territorial map, one of the aboriginal nations who live in this region. Supported by the essence of identity expressed through the original Abenaki toponymy within le territoire quebecois, it was possible to trace their historical territory, the W8banaki . By examining systematically the historical, cartographical and geographical sources available, it was possible to collect more than 1000 toponyms of Abenaki origin; they referring to more than 800 geographical entities. Based on this gazetteer the toponymic classification was carried based on the toponyms' character; the toponyms were then placed on maps. Related to the presence of Abenaki in various sources, the complementarity of the data established the effective presence of the Abenaki within a definite territory in Quebec according to the historical sources that the European colonists preserved.
Being mainly and everywhere dispersed throughout southernmost Quebec, the toponyms of Abenaki origin follow a pattern strongly linked to the rivers. The highest concentration of Abenaki toponyms lies on the southern bank of the St. Lawrence River, which is included in the original territory. The toponyms follow mainly the limit of the Richelieu River to the west and appear down to the Bas-Saint-Laurent in the east. However, the Malecite presence at the same area does not allow the identification of this zone with precision. On the north bank of the St. Lawrence, the two extensions that hold the attention are the Outaouais, where the presence of Abenaki toponyms is recent and not based on settlement and Mauricie, which corresponds to the hunting practices in these territories.
The conclusion is that the southern bank of the St. Lawrence River has been Abenaki territory from the Richelieu River to the Bas-Saint-Laurent from 17th century to the beginning of the 21st century. During the 20th century the Bas-Saint-Laurent is the easternmost zone where Abenaki toponyms are established. On the northern side, the Saint-Maurice River constitutes a zone of Abenaki occupation only since the 19th century and in the Outaouais it can be traced back to the 20 th century. It is almost totally the southernmost territory of Quebec with the concentration of 80% of its population that constitutes an indigenous world that had entirely been lost in memory, conscience and presence at the same time.

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Meimaris, Yiannis E. "Sacred names, saints, martyrs and church officials in the Greek inscriptions and papyri pertaining to the Christian church of Palestine." Athens, Greece : Paris : Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation ; Diffusion De Boccard, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18374549.html.

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"Based on the thesis submitted by the author for the degree 'Doctor of Philosophy' to the Senate of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1976"--P. viii.
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Zattar, Neuza Benedita da Silva. "Os sentidos de liberdade dos escravos na constituição do sujeito de enunciação sustentada pelo instrumento da alforria." [s.n.], 2000. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269163.

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Orientador: Monica Graciela Zoppi-Fontana
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de investigação a mudança da condição jurídica do escravo de objeto de direito (a quem é negado o direito ao dizer) à pessoa livre (pessoa física reconhecida juridicamente) sustentada pelo instrumento da alforria e se inscreve no campo teórico da Semântica Histórica da Enunciação que se define como a disciplina que trata "a questão da significação ao mesmo tempo como lingüística, histórica e relativa ao sujeito que enuncia" (Guimarães,1995:85). Nessa perspectiva, procuro compreender o fenômeno lingüísticohistórico da alforria que garante a mudança da condição jurídica do escravo como também o seu direito ao dizer, se considerarmos que na condição de forro ou liberto, o escravo, constitucionalmente, ao lado dos ingênuos, constitui a classe dos cidadãos brasileiros. Procuro ver também como os sentidos produzidos pelos diferentes discursos que cruzam as enunciações, a partir do confronto de posições-sujeito na discursividade do jurídico, do proprietário, do Império e da Igreja, constróem os processos de designação e de constituição dos nomes próprios que nos recortes analisados configuram um divisar entre os que determinam o acontecimento e enunciam e aqueles que nele se inscrevem afetados por essa determinação e são tratados como não pessoa. Nas enunciações que incluem os senhores de engenho, a Igreja e o jurídico, o escravo se cdnstitui em sujeito religioso e em sujeito civil mas não chega a ocupar uma posição de sujeito que enuncia. E nesses acontecimentos enunciativos o seu dizer mantém-se tutelado pelas instituições que o regem. Na condição de liberto ou forro, fica assegurado ao escravo o direito ao dizer que se sustenta não só pelo instrumento da alforria, mas também pela mudança nos funcionamentos da linguagem, especificamente, nos processos de designação no interdiscurso e na mudança histórica das formas de enunciação
Abstract: This study has the object of investigation of the change in the judicial condition of the slave from object rights (to whom is denied the right to speak) to the free person (natural person legally recognized) sustained by document of freedom and inscribed in the theoretic field of Semantic History of Enunciation which is the defined as the discipline that treats "question of significance to at the same time as linguistics, history and relation to the subject that enunciates" (Guimarães, 1995:85). ... Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations
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Cole, Ann. "The place-name evidence for a routeway network in early medieval England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f098ff71-7f78-45a8-b8a2-efd9c0e26345.

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Evidence for routes in use in the early medieval period from documents and excavations is fragmentary, and from maps is nil, but place-names help to fill the gap. Known early roads, travellers and possible origins of place-names are considered before detailed examination of the place-names that consistently occur by routeways. Ways of measuring proximity of named settlements to routeways, including the chi-squared test and dispersion graphs, are described. The place-names are considered in detail. The road terms strǣt and weg yielded useful information; pæth and stīg did not. Gewæd and gelād indicated difficult crossings; ford was too ubiquitous to be useful. Facilities available were indicated by mere-tūn and byden-welle (water supply); strǣt-tūn and calde-cot but not Coldharbour (lodgings); mōr-tūn and mersc-tūn (fodder); dræg-tun and dræg-cot (aid to travellers in difficulty); grǣfe-tūn (pay-load). Ōra and ofer, round-shouldered ridges, were used as 'signposts' at significant points on roads and waterways to indicate, inter alia, harbour entrances, cross roads and mineral deposits. Cumb-tūn, denu-tūn, ceaster and wīc-hām were easily recognised and helped travellers to identify their whereabouts. Seaways and rivers in use were highlighted by the use of port, hȳth, ēa-tūn and lād A series of these indicative names occurring along a route, usually Roman, suggests that the route was in use. Certain saltways, Gough (c. 1360) and Ogilby (1675) routes and a few others were also highlighted. Findings are summarised on the end-paper map. As a check on the results, coin-find distributions for the early eighth century and late tenth/ early eleventh century were mapped against route-ways. Routes in use from placename and coin evidence were broadly similar. Evidence from pottery scatters was difficult to assemble, and gave poorer results. The evolution of the naming system is discussed. The consistent way that widely occurring landforms and habitation types were named throughout England enables the mapping of an early medieval routeway network using place-name evidence. The appendices list and map each corpus.

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龐琨. "西周金文所見「師某」名稱研究= A study of names in the form "Shi X" as seen in Western Zhou bronze Inscriptions." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2018. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/571.

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西周金文中稱呼為「師某」（「師某父」）的一類人，以前往往認為「師」是其官職。張亞初、劉雨的《西周金文官制考》一書將這些人與大師等放在一起，列為「師官類官」。前人在談及這一類人的時候，往往結合單篇的銘文對他們的身份進行確認，因此出現了「師」是「師氏」的簡稱或者「大師」的簡稱等看法。這些觀點由於取材範圍過窄，或者由於有結論先行的弊病，故而有失偏頗。西周金文中這些稱作「師某」的人是一類較為特殊的人群，他們的官職各不相同，許多人確實是武官，且有帶兵打仗的記錄，但也有一些人的職責與軍事無關或者不直接相關。西周時期的官制系統已較為成熟，不應出現一種官職名稱對應多種差別巨大的職責範疇的現象，因此「師某」的稱呼並非以官職冠於私名之上。職責差別之外，「師」的社會地位有高下的不同，並且上司和下屬、子輩和父輩祖輩可以同時稱為「師」，前者說明「師」不是一種尊稱，後者說明「師」不是一種世襲的爵位。在地緣方面，「師」大都集中在周人的兩個重要的活動中心----宗周和岐周。而在血緣方面，「師」表現出一定的家族性特征，在宗周和岐周也分別有一個由「師」組成的家族。「師」的家族具有著深厚的歷史傳承，是較為強大的地方勢力。總而言之，師是西周時期宗周地區對某些具有一定社會地位的有官職的貴族的稱呼，他們擁有一定的功業或者社會名望，同時也擁有強大的家族勢力。This dissertation takes issue with the interpretation that people in Western Zhou bronze inscriptions referred to by "Shi師X" (or "Shi師X fu父") had to have been officials because of these names, and argues against the view that these names were associated with or abbreviations of the offices called "Shi shi師氏" or "Da shi大師". Point in fact, people whose names were preceded by "Shi 師" had wide-ranging duties. They were military officers, secretaries, education officials, and even regents. The Western Zhou had a sophisticated official system, and it is unlikely that one position was set to administer such a multitude of tasks and duties. In addition, people of different classes and of different generations could be called "Shi 師", and a collation of all the data suggests that it was not an honorific appellation nor a hereditary title. Archaeological information from unearthed bronzes with inscriptions reveals that these people called "Shi師X" were centered mainly in Zong Zhou宗周 and Qi Zhou岐周, these two places being the political and religious centers of the Western Zhou rulers. I argue that "Shi" was a term used by nobles who possessed a certain amount of meritorious deeds or attained a certain social status.

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Ferreira, Ana Cláudia Fernandes 1973. "A linguística entre os nomes da linguagem : uma reflexão na historia das idéias linguísticas no Brasil." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270538.

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Orientador: Claudia Regina Castellanos Pfeiffer
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Esta tese, inscrita na área da História das Idéias Lingüísticas no Brasil - HIL, elabora um estudo sobre os percursos de sentido do nome lingüística, ao lado de outros nomes da linguagem, no processo de constituição da Lingüística na Unicamp. Este estudo se faz através de uma reflexão sobre as condições históricas gerais e específicas do processo de institucionalização/significação destes nomes de saber nesse espaço universitário. No batimento entre teoria e análise, esta reflexão se faz pela construção de um arquivo de leitura (PÊCHEUX) de obras a que me filio na área HIL, através da mobilização de conceitos e dispositivos teóricos e analíticos da análise de discurso e de dispositivos analíticos da semântica da enunciação. Ao lado disso, a construção deste arquivo de leitura envolve, como material de análise, projetos e programas de curso, catálogos, ofícios sobre a constituição da lingüística na Unicamp, além de publicações diversificadas e materiais disponíveis na internet sobre a história da lingüística no Brasil e no exterior. Deste modo, no interior deste lugar de reflexão e análise, este trabalho objetiva apresentar algumas compreensões (ORLANDI) sobre as divisões, tensões e contradições produzidas em torno da palavra lingüística, nas condições de produção de sua institucionalização no Brasil, como nome de curso de graduação e de pós-graduação na Unicamp, já na década de 1970. Mais especificamente, este estudo busca mostrar como a palavra lingüística vai sendo significada enquanto um nome que se (re)divide, (re)designa e (re)significa em relação a outros nomes, tais como: ciência da linguagem, ciências da linguagem e estudos da linguagem. Nome de curso, que se institucionalizou na Unicamp sob uma forte demanda pela cientificidade, conjugada indissociavelmente ao argumento da pluri/interdisciplinaridade e que, em relação a outros nomes de linguagem (fonética, fonologia, gramática, semântica, pragmática, análise do discurso, sociolingüística, psicolingüística, neurolingüística, teoria literária, etc.) os (re)dividem, os (re)designam e os (re)significam, numa relação tensa, contraditória e constitutiva, enquanto disciplinas da lingüística, disciplinas relacionadas à lingüística e disciplinas em oposição à lingüística. Estas reflexões sobre as relações entre o nome lingüística e outros nomes de linguagem, inclui, também, nomes de autores e de Instituições, sem deixar de considerar as relações constitutivas entre as políticas do Estado, das Instituições e dos saberes. Desta maneira, focalizando o processo de constituição da lingüística num espaço institucional específico, o da Unicamp, este trabalho pretende contribuir para os estudos de História das Idéias Lingüísticas no Brasil e do Brasil
Abstract: This thesis, which belongs to the area of History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil (HIL), is a study of the historical path of the meaning of the term linguistics, as it relates to other terms connected with the studies of language, in the process of the institutionalization of linguistics at Unicamp (State University of Campinas. São Paulo State, Brazil). The study is a reflection on the general and specific historical conditions of the process of institutionalization/signification of these terms of knowledge in a particular university space. At the intersection of theory and analysis, this reflection has been done through the construction of a reading archive (PÊCHEUX) of works associated with the area of HIL, and by means of the use of the theoretical and analytical tools and concepts of discourse analysis, and of the analytical tools of the semantics of enunciation. In addition, the construction of this reading archive involves, as material for analysis, course programs, catalogs, and official documents related to the institutionalization of linguistics at Unicamp, as well as diverse publications and material available on the internet regarding the history of linguistics in Brazil and abroad. Within the limits of this area of reflection and analysis, this work aims to present certain understandings (ORLANDI) of the divisions, tensions, and contradictions surrounding the word linguistics, in the conditions of the production of its institutionalization in Brazil as the name of an undergraduate and graduate course at Unicamp since the 1970s. More specifically, this study seeks to show how the word linguistics came to be signified as a term which (re)divides, (re)designates, and (re)signifies in relation to other terms such as science of language, sciences of language, and studies of language. Linguistics is the name of a course of study which was institutionalized at Unicamp in the context of a strong demand for scientificality, and connected indissolubly with the notion of pluri/interdisciplinarity. As such, in its relation to other terms related to the studies of language (phonetics, phonology, grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, literary theory, etc.), it (re)divides, (re)designs, and (re)signifies them, in a tense, contradictory, and constitutive relationship, as disciplines of linguistics, disciplines related to linguistics, and disciplines in opposition to linguistics. These reflections on the relation of the term linguistics to other terms related to language include as well the names of authors and institutions, without leaving aside considerations of the constitutive relations between state policies, institutions, and knowledge. In this way, focusing on the process of the institutionalization of linguistics in a specific institutional space (Unicamp), this works seeks to contribute to the study of the History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil
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Король, Віталій Миколайович, Виталий Николаевич Король, and Vitalii Mykolaiovych Korol. "Зміна назв вулиць у Сумах під час німецької окупації (1941-1943)." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2010. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/7401.

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Seesholtz, John Clayton. "An introduction to the AIDS quilt songbook and its uncollected works." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12199.

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Green, Thomas. "A re-evaluation of the evidence of Anglian-British interaction in the Lincoln region." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5b6c3700-8972-44a4-831d-442241862a54.

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This thesis offers an interdisciplinary approach to the period between c. AD 400 and 650 in the Lincoln region, considering in depth not only the archaeological evidence, but also the historical, literary and linguistic. It is argued that by using all of this material together, significant advances can be made in our understanding of what occurred in these centuries, most especially with regard to Anglian-British interaction in this period. It is contended that this evidence, when taken together, requires that a British polity named *Lindēs was based at Lincoln into the sixth century, and that the seventh-century Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey (Old English Lindissi < Late British *Lindēs-) had an intimate connection to this British political unit. In addition to investigating the evidence for Anglian-British interaction in this region and the potential legacies of British *Lindēs, this thesis also provides a detailed analysis of the nature of the Anglo-Saxon population-groups that were present in the Lincoln region from the mid-fifth century onwards, including those of *Lindēs-Lindissi and also more southerly groups, such as the Spalde/Spaldingas. The picture which emerges is arguably not simply of importance from the perspective of the history of the Lincoln region but also nationally, helping to answer key questions regarding the origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the nature and extent of Anglian-British interaction in the core areas of Anglo-Saxon immigration, and the conquest and settlement of Northumbria.

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Harrison, Jane. "Building mounds : Viking-Late Norse settlement in the North Atlantic, c. AD800-1200." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f5aa50e8-ace0-49fd-9065-c0c94187ffc6.

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The subject of this study is Viking-Late Norse settlement (c. AD800-1200) in the North Atlantic, focusing on Orkney and on longhouse complexes constructed on mounds. For the first time these mound settlements are investigated as a group and as deliberately constructed mounds. Settlement mounds in Orkney are also closely associated with nearly 40 Skaill ON skáli ('hall') place-names, which place-names linked the sites with the social and economic networks of Orkney's peripatetic leaders. This association is examined more closely. The analysis also demonstrates that constructing settlements on mounds required particular building techniques, which relied heavily on the use of midden-type material. Those techniques are examined using new and freshly analysed material from published and grey literature-published excavations and surveys of sites from the Viking-Late Norse period in Orkney and elsewhere. Three core data-sets were established to provide the evidential basis: the first, also drawing on site-visits, looking broadly at mound landscapes and skáli-areas in Orkney; the second at the building techniques and materials used on settlement mounds; and the third, also requiring site-visits, at all the skáli place-name sites. The possible origins of settlement mound living in the settlers' Scandinavian homelands are investigated, then the extent to which mound living was also followed in Shetland, Caithness and the Western Isles, and finally in previously unoccupied lands, using Iceland as a case study. The mound-sites, their archaeology, mound architecture, place-names and landscape setting are also analysed in a new theoretical framework to reach fresh understandings of Viking-Late Norse settlement in Orkney. The analysis thus considers the wider cultural significance of constructing and living on settlement mounds, and what that communicated about Viking-Late Norse society. The thesis argues that Viking-Late Norse groups chose prominently-placed sites for their visual dominance and commanding views, but also that the rebuilding of mound structures in one spot, and building out and up of the mound itself using midden material, set strong cultural messages about stability, continuity and association with the surrounding landscape. The mounds were complex features of culturally meaningful architecture.

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Elsley, Judith Helen 1952. "The semiotics of quilting: discourse of the marginalized." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/565534.

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Philyaw, Jessica. "A Minister in All But Name: The Letters of Martha Gerrish (1689-1736)." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625627.

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Hüntelmann, Axel C. "Hygiene im Namen des Staates : das Reichsgesundheitsamt 1876-1933 /." Göttingen : Wallstein, 2008. http://d-nb.info/988532948/04.

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Colin, Frédéric. "Les Libyens en Egypte (XVe siècle A.C.-IIe siècle P.C.): onomastique et histoire." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212498.

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Knibb, Madeleine. "Speaking for themselves : the significance of field-names in understanding a diverse historic landscape in Somerset." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33400.

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This thesis reflects on the value of the study of field-names in understanding the historic landscape of Somerset. The post-medieval field-names recorded in the nineteenth century Tithe surveys of Somerset represent a comprehensive resource which offers evidence of how the people of a parish experienced and managed their working environment. This investigation considers field-names in their landscape, drawing on sources which offer indications of how the community understood and appreciated local conditions. The study will begin with sources post-1600, although earlier material will be included where appropriate. Wider sources such as records of archaeological investigations and aerial photography will allow additional insights into the nuanced naming of fields, boundaries and routeways and the changes which occurred over time. The focus of the study is particularly on the relationship between field-names and locality and how naming practices differed across contrasting parish settings. A key finding in this investigation was that field-names communicated a broad range of detailed information about the environment of the parish and the wider working countryside. A significant conclusion was that although parishes across the contrasting landscapes of the study area were seen to share many field-name elements, they used them in different ways and added locally distinctive elements more meaningful in their familiar environment. A significant indication was that field-names could illustrate change, for example through the naming of new field boundaries, access rights, routeways, landuse and crops. Field-names reflected the lives of the people of a parish and how they managed their land, processed materials and developed crafts for their complex lives.

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Joulain, Amelia Tahirih. "Corpus linguistics for history : the methodology of investigating place-name discourses in digitised nineteenth-century newspapers." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2017. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/88671/.

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The increasing availability of historical sources in a digital form has led to calls for new forms of reading in history. This thesis responds to these calls by exploring the potential of approaches from the field of corpus linguistics to be useful to historical research. Specifically, two sets of methodological issues are considered that arise when corpus linguistic methods are used on digitised historical sources. The first set of issues surrounds optical character recognition (OCR), computerised text transcription based on image reproduction of the original printed source. This process is error-prone, which leads to potentially unreliable word-counts. I find that OCR errors are very varied, and more different from their corrections than natural spelling variation from a standard form. As a result of OCR errors, the test OCR corpus examined has a slightly inflated overall token count (as compared to a hand-corrected gold standard), and a vastly inflated type count. Not all spurious types are infrequent: around 7% of types occurring at least 10 times in my test OCR corpus are spurious. I also find evidence that real-word errors occur. Assessing the impact of OCR errors on two common collocation statistics, Mutual Information (MI) and Log-Likelihood (LL), I find that both are affected by OCR errors. This analysis also provides evidence that OCR errors are not homogenously distributed throughout the corpus. Nevertheless, for small collocation spans, MI rankings are broadly reliable in OCR data, especially when used in combination with an LL threshold. Large spans are best avoided, as both statistics become increasingly less reliable in OCR data, when used with larger spans. Both statistics attract non-negligible rates of false positives. Using a frequency floor will eliminate many OCR errors, but does not reduce the rates of MI and LL false positives. Assessing the potential of two post-OCR correction methods, I find that VARD, a program designed to standardise natural spelling variation, proves unpromising for dealing with OCR errors. By contrast, Overproof, a commercial system designed for OCR errors, is effective, and its application leads to substantial improvements in the reliability of MI and LL, particularly for large spans. The second set of issues relate to the effectiveness of approaches to analysing the discourses surrounding place-names in digitised nineteenth-century newspapers. I single out three approaches to identifying place-names mentioned in large amounts of text without the need for a geo-parser system. The first involves relying on USAS, a semantic tagger, which has a 'Z2' tag for geographic names. This approach cannot identify multi-word place-names, but is scalable. A difficulty is that frequency counts of place-names do not account for their possible polysemy; I suggest a procedure involving reading a random sample of concordance lines for each place-name, in order to obtain an estimate of the actual number of mentions of that place-name in reference to a specific place. This method is best used to identify the most frequent place-names. A second, related, approach is to automatically compare a list of words tagged 'Z2' with a gazetteer, a reference list of place-names. This method, however, suffers from the same difficulties as the previous one, and is best used when accurate frequency counts are not required. A third approach involves starting from a principled, text-external, list of place-names, such as a population table, then attempting to locate each place in the set of texts. The scalability of this method depends on the length of the list of place-names, but it can accommodate any quantity of text. Its advantage over the two other methods is that it helps to contextualise the findings and can help identify place-names which are not mentioned in the texts. Finally, I consider two approaches to investigating the discourses surrounding place-names in large quantities of text. Both are scalable operationalisations of proximity-based collocation. The first approach starts with the whole corpus, searching for the place-name of interest and generating a list of statistical collocates of the place-name; these collocates can then be further categorised and analysed via concordance analysis. The second approach starts with small samples of concordance lines for the place-name of interest, and involves analysing these concordance lines to develop a framework for description of the phraseologies within which place-names are mentioned. Both methods are useful and scalable; the findings they yield are, to some extent, overlapping, but also complementary. This suggests that both methods may be fruitfully used together, albeit neither is ideally-suited for comparing results across corpora. Both approaches are well-suited for exploratory research.

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Crichton, Anna-Claire. "What’s in a Name; An Examination of Scandinavian Groups and their Interactions in Viking Age Ireland." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1624284838035963.

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Chapman, Christine. "'My name was mud!' : women's experiences of conformity and resistance in post-war Rhondda." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2016. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/my-name-was-mud(63bcfe0d-2c25-4524-abb4-f5a7174b5118).html.

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This thesis contributes to debates on the changes and continuities affecting women's lives in mid-twentieth century Britain, examining the factors that shaped what was possible for women coming of age in the immediate post-war years. Within the developed historiography on the coalfields, women's histories have been limited to broad overviews of women's social history. This thesis enriches these overviews by offering a close reading of a small cohort of women's composure of their life narratives. It thus promotes an understanding of a fuller 'life history', as affected by changes with the onset of the welfare state and the impact of community on women's well-being. The thesis contributes to the growing body of literature combatting the silencing of women in the male dominated historiography on industrial working-class communities. Specifically, it does so in the context of the interplay and tensions between a community and its individuals, and the impact of that community on women's life trajectories. The south Wales community of the Rhondda is utilised as a case study. Culturally and economically significant, the Rhondda has been the focus of much of the historiography on the coalfields. I conclude that the impact of gender ideology and community structures on Rhondda women's experiences were diverse, complex and contradictory. In composing their life narratives, the cohort negotiated aspects of their lives experienced as poor, unchallenging and unsatisfying. Rhondda's poverty had a detrimental impact on the women's lives. Relationships between community values and individuals emerged as structures enabling and constraining the potential of women in the cohort to live their lives freely and satisfactorily. The pressure for respectability within the community was a major constraining force. Early experiences were influential in how they conducted themselves in adulthood. Yet evidence of happiness is present, particularly around experiences of married life, which presents as an antidote to the frequently pessimistic discourses surrounding the debates on companionate marriage. Utilising their own experiences of struggle and disadvantage, many of the cohort emphasised their support for increased opportunities for subsequent generations of Rhondda women.

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Radway, Robyn Dora. "In the name of Saint George : ivory saddles from the fifteenth century." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1311.

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Collins, Micah David. "What The Religions Named In The Qur'an Can Tell Us About The Earliest Understanding of "Islam"." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1341884313.

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Carlson, Nicole Marie. "Reconstructing history through stories : Julia Alvarez's In the time of the butterflies and In the name of Salomé /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1454.pdf.

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Marquis, Arthur-David. "In the Name of Homeland Security| A Legal History of Post-9/11 Labor Policy at US Customs." Thesis, State University of New York Empire State College, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10256835.

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"MAXhr”, the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel system authorized as part of the most significant government restructure of the past 50 years by the Homeland Security Act (HSA), fundamentally altered labor relations policies for 170,000 DHS employees. A subsequent National Security Personnel System at the Department of Defense was modeled after MAXhr and expanded similar changes to nearly 700,000 federal civilian employees. Within this context of these systemic changes, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) litigated a decade-long challenge to uphold key provisions of its collectively bargained agreement with the US Customs Service (USCS). Fifteen years after the HSA merged USCS into the new US Customs and Border Protection agency within the DHS, NTEU’s initial legal setbacks have been resolved with precedential victories and pending back pay awards upholding its collective bargaining rights while rolling back the personnel management systems instituted in the name of homeland security.

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Richter, Sandra L. "The deuteronomistic history and the name theology : "leškkēn šemô šām" in the Bible and the Ancient Near East /." Berlin ; New York : W. De Gruyter, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb390516712.

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Menuge, Noel James. "In the name of the father : English wardship in romance and law, c. 1200 - c. 1420." Thesis, University of York, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301153.

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Sanchez, Sabrina M. "In the name of the father, the governor, and "A-1 good men"| Performing gender and statehood in territorial New Mexico, 1880--1912." Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3589360.

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Marginalized husbands, fathers, and sons on dramatically different positions within territorial New Mexico's social, racial, and class hierarchies constructed and performed the identity of young, able-bodied, industrious "A-1 good men" when demanding entitlements from governors, penitentiary wardens, chiefs of the Mounted Police Force, and Bureau of Immigration officials in a fledgling territory that desperately coveted statehood. Not a Hispano identity, an Anglo identity, or an affluent one, this gendered identity embodied a representation of the man territorial authorities defined as the ideal New Mexican, an image deemed necessary to merit and achieve equal inclusion in the United States.

I argue that New Mexico's underfunded institutions of the Territorial Penitentiary, Mounted Police Force, Bureau of Immigration, and territorial courts—institutions designed to facilitate New Mexico's transition from a demeaned site of Spanish, Mexican, and indigenous Pueblo authority to a celebrated site of U.S., Anglo, and federal authority—enabled this gendered representation to flourish.

This dissertation interrogates how and why territorial institutions differentially recognized those with whom they interacted, directly or tangentially, including immigrant miners, an incarcerated pregnant African American teenager and her veteran father, an elderly Anglo female murder victim, imprisoned Hispano husbands, Hispana business owners in need of police protection, and young Anglo "cowmen" seeking employment.

New Mexico's status as a peripheral participant in the nation propelled a milieu of unbelonging and rigorous racialization. Scrutinizing demands for entitlements found in the correspondence, advertisements, and judicial proceedings of territorial institutions illuminates a gendered rhetorical pattern that determined whose labor would be considered most valuable, whose testimony would be granted the most consideration in court, whose family would merit wages from territorial employment, and whose presence would be most welcome outside of the penitentiary.

New Mexico's territorial institutions are spaces where the enmeshment of race, gender, working-class masculinity, and political disenfranchisement is highly visible. These institutions did not evaluate gendered claims of entitlement equally. How women—whether Hispana, Anglo, African American, immigrant, native-born, young, elderly, domestic worker, or business owner—negotiated this space in political transition challenges the ubiquitous performances of masculinity harnessed to obtain privileges from territorial institutions.

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Carlson, Nicole Marie. "Telling History Through the Stories of Women: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/494.

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My thesis discusses the ways in which Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) and In the Name of Salomé (2000) are revolutionary texts contesting traditional, male dominated history and redirecting historical and communal foci to the lives of Dominican women. I employ Walter Benjamin's theories found in his essays "The Storyteller" (1936) and "On the Concept of History" (1940) to assist my exploration of Alvarez's questions concerning the power and effect of storytelling, and the importance of reconstructing various historical voices and images, specifically, the importance of reconstructing female voices in male dominated cultures. I discuss the female-narrated component to Dominican history which Alvarez creates in her reconstruction of the lives of these women. Alvarez confronts the challenge of breaking these women out of their marginalized status by combining fiction with history in her reconstruction of their lives. Alvarez assumes the multifaceted role of mediator, story-teller, and historian as she remembers and re-presents Dominican history through the eyes of women who lived, experienced, and affected change within the Dominican Republic. Without merely act as a reporter of historical "facts," Alvarez reconstructs the lives of these women fictionally, applying her impressions and ideas about the personalities, feelings, and thoughts of these women, and historically, utilizing first and secondhand accounts and information about the women. Ultimately, the women are presented as individuals but are also connected to a collective memory and history. As individuals with human characteristics, the women are no longer inaccessible legends. As members of a collective memory and history, the women are redeemed from the isolating effect of their patriarchal society which would have women remain silent. Due to Alvarez's reconstruction, their stories finally have the potential for further dissemination in the future with the possibility to affect other oppressed peoples. Thus, Alvarez's reconstruction of the resistance of a few women in Dominican history produces the capacity for additional resistance by Alvarez's audience to the same forces that these women were combating which continue to exist today — forces such as patriarchy, dictatorial governments, fascism, and economic disparity.

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New, Elizabeth Anne. "The cult of the Holy Name of Jesus in late medieval England, with special reference to the Fraternity in St. Paul's Cathedral, London c.1450-1558." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298360.

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Amorim, Siloé Soares de. "Os Kalankó, Karuazu, Koiupanká e Katokinn : resistência e ressurgência indígena no alto sertão Alagoano." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/25528.

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Os Kalankó, Karuazu, Katokinn e Koiupanka. desde 1998 vem reaparecendo no cenário étnico-político como índios resistentes. Como tais, demandam do Órgão indigenista oficial, a FUNAI, reconhecimento, delimitação e demarcação etnicoterritorial. A forma particular como reapareceram marcou os quatro povos: uma aparição pública coletiva chamada "festa do ressurgimento". Apresentando-se de forma similar, mas em espaço físico e temporal distintos, o reaparecimento étnico dos KKKK tem como pano de fundo o processo hist6rico e a trajet6ria (dispersão e reagrupamento) desses grupos como "rama" e "ponta de rama" (dos Pankararu, seus ascendentes) no Alto Sertão alagoano. A pesquisa de campo desenvolve-se, paralelamente, no registro fílmico-fotográfico desses eventos e na reconstrução de seus etnônimos e observa, em seu conjunto, as relações entre a representação indígena e a imagem "como um retorno a si mesmo" como uma forma de entrever o passado desses povos em imagens do presente, nas quais os indivíduos e suas comunidades compõem sua própria forma de "mostrar-se" ao mundo com "novas" especificidades étnicas, numa tentativa de restaurar também sua memória, o que permite, nesta pesquisa, caracterizar o tratamento hist6rico atribuído aos índios, enquanto que, paralelamente, o registro imagético possibilita também formar arquivos dos mesmos no Brasil.
Since 1998 the Kalankó, Karuazu, Katokinn and Koiupanka have been reappearing throughout the ethnic-political scene as resistant Indians. As such, they have demanded from Funai, the official indigenist office, their official recognition, as well as the measurement and official establishment of their ethnic territories. The singular way in which they have reappeared has marked the four peoples: a collective public appearance named the reappearance feast". Showing themselves in a similar way, but in distinct physical and temporal spaces, the ethnic reappearance of the KKKK branch has had as backdrop the historical process and journey (breaking up and regrouping) of these groups as "branch" and "end of branch" (from their ascendants, the Pankararu) in the highlands of Alagoas state. Meanwhile, in the same time frame, fieldwork is developed, overall, using filmic-photographic register of these events observing as well the reconstruction of their ethnic-names, including the relationships between indigenous self-presentation and image "as a return upon oneself'. This is a way to see the past of these peoples and the images of their actuality, in which individuals and their communities compose their own form of "showing themselves off' to the world with "new" ethnic specificities, as an attempt to bring back their memories. All of this allows this research to characterize the historical treatment given to the Indians while, at the same time, the imagetic registration also allows the formation of archives about them in Brazil.

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