Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Proper names not only serve as identifiers of people, places and other entities, they may also function as markers of personal and national identity. Eponymous and toponymous names of ships often function as metaphors or metonyms, signifying country or place of origin. During the first half of the twentieth century, ocean liner names became tropes of nationhood, empire, and might, signifying the homeland, foreign destinations and celebrating royalty and national heroes, etc. This article analyses the names of liners from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, and shows how the names reflect contemporaneous national socio-cultural and political mindsets.
Source: The Mariner s Mirror
Author: Jan Tent
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Macquarie University
OpenAlex ID: W4385557594