3. Introduced Personal Names for Australian Aborigines: Adaptations to an Exotic Anthroponymy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Trends in Onomastics: An Introduction xiii
6. Part 1: The Varied Identities of People and Places
7. 1. Internet Personal Naming Practices and Trends in Scholarly Approaches 3
8. 2. Visitor Experiences of Aboriginal Place Names in Colonial Victoria, Australia, 1834–1900 18
9. 3. Introduced Personal Names for Australian Aborigines: Adaptations to an Exotic Anthroponymy 32
10. 4. Personal Naming and Community Practices in the Western Isles of Scotland: Putting Names in the ‘Gaelic Sense’ 47
11. 5. Signs of/on Power, Power on/of Signs: Language-Based Tourism, Linguistic Landscapes and Onomastics on Norfolk Island 62
12. Part 2: Attitudes and Attachment
13. 6. The Controversy of Restoring Indigenous Names: Lessons Learnt and Strategies for Success 83
14. 7. Attitudes to Street Names in Helsinki 106
15. 8. Linguistic Landscape and Inhabitants’ Attitudes to Place Names in Multicultural Oslo 120
16. 9. Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon 137
17. 10. Slang Toponyms in Hungary: A Survey of Attitudes Among Language Users 153
18. Part 3: Power, Resistance and Control
19. 11. Renaming as Counter-Hegemony: The Cases of Noreg and Padania 165
20. 12. Naming Parks, Footpaths and Small Bridges in a Multicultural Suburban Area 185
21. 13. Personal Names in Language Policy and Planning: Who Plans What Names, for Whom and How? 197
22. 14. Is the Official Use of Names in Norway Determined by the Place- Names Act or by Attitudes? 213
23. 15. The Power of Administration in the Official Recognition of Indigenous Place Names in the Nordic Countries 229
24. Index 250