The Choice of First Names as a Social Resource and Act of Identity among Multilingual Families in Contemporary Sweden

dc.contributor.authorAldrin, Emilia
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-25T20:22:39Z
dc.date.available2010-01-25T20:22:39Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractAll choices we make, linguistic choices as well as others, are to some extent choices of identity. This includes parents’ choices of first names for their children. Through such choices they create an identity for the child, which will show the child, as well as others, who he or she is and how he or she is related to different groups. In the case of multilingual families the choice of first names often becomes a quite obvious choice between different ethnic identities. These families might choose a first name from the onomasticon of the surrounding majority, or from the onomasticon of their own language(s), or they might try to combine these in some way – and each choice will mean a choice of a different ethnic identity for the child. But the choice is not only a matter of identity. A name can also be a valuable resource that helps to achieve certain social goals. So the name choice can also be affected by more practical issues such as these. In this paper I explore how the choice of first names is influenced by language background in 126 multilingual families in the city of Gothenburg in western Sweden.en
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciencesen
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-55014-521-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/2926
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherYork Universityen
dc.rightsThe following articles are © 2009 with the individual authors. They are made available free of charge from this page as a service to the community under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative Works license version 3.0. For full details go to http://creativecommons.org.licenses/ny-nd.3.0en
dc.subjectNames and Multilingual Familiesen
dc.subjectSwedish Personal Namesen
dc.titleThe Choice of First Names as a Social Resource and Act of Identity among Multilingual Families in Contemporary Swedenen
dc.title.alternativeSession Paperen
dc.typeArticleen

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