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dc.contributor.authorRyan, John Sen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Sealen
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-18T14:34:00Z-
dc.date.issued1993-
dc.identifier.citationThe Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore, p. 291-294en
dc.identifier.isbn0195530578en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19384-
dc.description.abstractReal names, both for places and persons, arc pivotal in many legends. Colloquial or familiar names, and their popular meaning or association, have an important role in Australian folklore, even though many possess what may be deemed a limited historical or regional/familial currency. This whole general field of study, onomastics, has in folkloric forms the customary two divisions - names of places, and periphrases, nicknames or popular labels for (groups of) people. Most of Australia's European-style place names or toponyms are in some degree 'signposts to the past', each containing one or all of the following types of information: geographic/topographic description; historical association in mind of the often unknown namer; or some linguistic/ethnic detail, if a name should be in form Irish, Gaelic (e.g. Inverell = 'river confluence - swans'), or from any language other than English. Aboriginal place names are equally pointers to past thought, although an actual associated incident may be impossible to retrieve now, and so they will seem more purely descriptive if a plausible etymology can be arrived at (see J. S. Ryan, 'Papers on Australian Place-Names', 1963).en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofThe Oxford Companion to Australian Folkloreen
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titleNamesen
dc.typeEntry In Reference Worken
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)en
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage Studiesen
dc.subject.keywordsSocial and Cultural Anthropologyen
local.contributor.firstnameJohn Sen
local.subject.for2008160104 Social and Cultural Anthropologyen
local.subject.for2008200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.for2008200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)en
local.subject.seo2008950304 Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritageen
local.subject.seo2008950503 Understanding Australia's Pasten
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailjryan@une.edu.auen
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local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20160816-141412en
local.publisher.placeMelbourne, Australiaen
local.format.startpage291en
local.format.endpage294en
local.contributor.lastnameRyanen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:jryanen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:19579en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleNamesen
local.output.categorydescriptionN Entry In Reference Worken
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8876841en
local.search.authorRyan, John Sen
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local.year.published1993en
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