Meandering Through the Name Maze
Does an individual's personal name affect his self-perception or the way that others perceive him? A survey of some literature and research studies examining the psychodynamics of names and naming practices provides several interesting minor points on the subject, but major generalizations will...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1980-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/545 |
| Summary: | Does an individual's personal name affect his self-perception or the way that others perceive him? A survey of some literature and research studies examining the psychodynamics of names and naming practices provides several interesting minor points on the subject, but major generalizations will remain elusive and indistinct so long as religious, economic, and physical factors are essentially inseparable from the naming process. |
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| ISSN: | 2378-7600 |