American Name Society
2008 Annual Meeting
Hilton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Thursday, 3 January
Afternoon
Executive Council Meeting
Room: Private Dining Room 4
Time: 12:00 – 3:30 PM
Personal Names
Chair: Herbert Barry III (University of Pittsburgh, Emeritus)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
4:00
4:30
Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University): Crimson Tide and Wolverines, Antebellum
Style: A Comparison of Given Names in the 1850 United States Census in Tuscaloosa County,
Alabama, and Washtenaw County, Michigan
Herbert Barry III (University of Pittsburgh, Emeritus) and Aylene S. Harper (Community
College of Allegheny County, South Campus): Gender and Racial Differences in Recently
Popular First Names
Women and Naming
Chair: Christine De Vinne (Ursuline College)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
5:15
5:45
Donna L. Lillian (East Carolina University): Regional Variation in Women’s Surname
Preferences
Christine De Vinne (Ursuline College): Renaming and Gender-Unmarking: Transition in U. S.
Women’s Colleges
Names, Nicknames, and Pet Names
Chair: Priscilla A. Ord (McDaniel College)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
6:30
Idowu O. Odebode (Redeemer’s University): A Lexico-Semantic Interpretation of Names and
Nicknames in Soyinka’s King Baabu
2008 American Name Society Emerging Scholar Award Recipient
American Name Society Co-Presidents’ Meet and Greet Reception
Room: Astoria
Time:
4
9:00 – 10:30 pm
Friday, 4 January
Morning
U. S. Place Names
Chair: Dwan L. Shipley (Western Washington University)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
8:30
9:00
9:30
Ernest L. Abel (Wayne State University): Going to the Devil
Frank Abate (Dictionaries International): Cincinnati Names and Naming: From Settlement to
Today
Dwan L. Shipley (Western Washington University): Reminisces and Personal Findings
Regarding Place Names in and Around the Town of Mannington, Marion County, West Virginia.
Italian and British Surnames
Chair: D. Kenneth Tucker (Carleton University)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
10:15 Jack Shreve (Allegany College of Maryland, Emeritus): The Surnames of a Southern Italian
Town
10:45 D. Kenneth Tucker (Carleton University): The Number of Surnames in Reaney’s 1958
Dictionary of British Surnames and the Subsequent Editions Withdrawn
Invited Speaker
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Time: 11:30 – 12:30 AM
Moderator:
Kemp Williams (IBM Global Name Recognition)
Edward Callary (Northern Illinois University): Presentation Names as Indices of Social
Trends
Respondents: Donna L. Lillian (East Carolina University)
Frank Nuessel (University of Louisville)
Lunch – Interest Group Gatherings
Places: TBA
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Personal Names: Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University)
Place Names: Alan Rayburn (Alan Rayburn Research Associates)
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Friday, 4 January
Afternoon
Presidential Assigned Nicknames and Personal Name Matching
Chair: Kemp Williams (IBM Global Name Recognition)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
2:00
2:30
Michael Adams (Indiana University): Nicknames, Interpellation, and Dubya’s Theory of the
State
Kemp Williams (IBM Global Name Recognition): Improved Name Matching Using
Regularized Name Forms
Name of the Year Voting
Chair: Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Time: 3:15 – 4:15 PM
Names, Personality, and Children’s Name Perception
Chair: Michael F. McGoff (State University of New York at Binghamton)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
4:30
Robert Sean Bannon (Bellevue University): Personality Effects on Naming Preferences
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American Dialect Society Word of the Year/American Name Society Name of the Year
Celebration
Room: Private Dining Room 2
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Annual Banquet
Place: The Italian Village, 71 West Monroe Street, Chicago, IL
Time: 7:00 Social Hour
7:45 Dinner
Saturday, 5 January
Morning
Annual Business Meeting
Chair: Alleen Pace Nilsen (Arizona State University) and Don L. F. Nilsen (Arizona State
University), Co-Presidents
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Time: 8:30 – 10:00 AM
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Names and Identity
Chair: Terrence M. Potter (Georgetown University):
Room: Private Dining Room 3
10:15 Karen Duchaj (Northeastern Illinois University) and Jeanine Ntihirageza (Northeastern
Illinois University): The Role of Names in Refugee Identity: Search for Invisibility, Not
Citizenship Among Burundians in Tanzanian Camps
10:45 Terrence M. Potter (Georgetown University): What’s in an Iraqi Name? Withdrawn
Musical Groups and Their Names
Chair: Margaret G. Lee (Hampton University)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
11:30 Lynn C. Westney (University of Illinois at Chicago): From Aerosmith to the Zombies:
Naming Patterns of Rock and Roll Groups
12:00 Margaret G. Lee (Hampton University): Appeasing While Rebelling: Names of Male and
Female Singing Groups in the Malt Shop Memories Collection
Lunch – Interest Group Gatherings
Places: TBA
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Branding: Chris De Vinne (Ursuline College)
Literary Onomastics: Alleen Pace Nilsen (Arizona State University and Don L. F.
Nilsen (Arizona State University)
Saturday 5, January
Afternoon
Invited Speaker
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Moderator:
Don L. F. Nilsen (Arizona State University)
Eric Hamp (University of Chicago, Emeritus): Names and No Names
Respondents: Thomas J. Gasque (University of South Dakota, Emeritus)
Alan Rayburn (Alan Rayburn Research Associates)
Personal Name Frequency and Meaning
Chair: Edwin D. Lawson (State University of New York at Fredonia, Emeritus)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
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3:15
3:45
Giovanni R. Ruffini (New York University): Medieval Nubian Names: A Study of Name
Frequency and Cultural Colonialism
Hashem Ahmad Mohammad Al-Darawsheh (Dar Ayman for Legal Translation): Arabic
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4:15
Break
4:30
Carol Lombard (University of South Africa): Names Tell Us Stories: Personal Naming in the
Niitsitapi Oral Tradition
Edwin D. Lawson (State University of New York at Fredonia, Emeritus), Raivo Seppo
(Viimsi Vald, Estonia), and Richard F. Sheil (State University of New York at Fredonia):
Estonian Given Names: Their Pronunciation, Meaning, and Frequency
5:00
Executive Council Meeting
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Linguistic Society of America Reception
Room: International Ballroom (South).
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Sunday, 6 January
Morning
Personal and Proper Names Among the Shona, Yoruba, and Baoulé
Chair: Michel Nguessan (Governor’s State University):
Room: Private Dining Room 3
8:30
9:00
9:30
Livingstone Makondo (Midlands State University): Shona Anthroponyms Since 1890
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Joshua Abiodun Ogunwale (Obafemi Awolowo University): An Anthropolinguistic Analysis
of Yoruba Proper Names Withdrawn
Michel Nguessan (Governor’s State University): The Semantic of Personal Names Among the
Baoulé (Ivory Coast)
Literary Onomastics
Chair: Alleen Pace Nilsen (Arizona State University)
Room: Private Dining Room 3
9:45
Alleen Pace Nilsen (Arizona State University): Naming as a Literary Technique in PrizeWinning Realistic Fiction for Teens
10:15 Don L. F. Nilsen (Arizona State University): Onomastic Schemes and Tropes in Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows