Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Using language and its symbolical signification to rule the world has been an invariable practice since the genesis. Analysing person’s names, therefore, should be considered among other things a serious way of recovering social, cultural and religious facts. These facts apparentely lost are duly registered in the untouched fragments of signification within a person’s name. As this paper intends to show, the Onomastic Science, through the sub-areas of Toponimy and Anthroponimy, uses language to rescue causes and facts overlaid during centuries of human existence, and it represents a real cultural recovery of collective memory.
Source: Domínios de Lingu gem
Author: Patrícia de Jesus Carvalhinhos
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo
Language: English
Topic: Language and Culture
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2124677560