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What's in a Name? Teaching Linguistics Using Onomastic Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Laurel MacKenzie
Laurel MacKenzie*
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Abstract

This article describes how students can be introduced to the basics of linguistic analysis using personal, product, and place names as data. I outline several areas of linguistics that can be effectively taught at an introductory level through name data and provide examples of accompanying in-class and take-home exercises. Throughout the article, I demonstrate that the everyday familiarity of names and the ready availability of name data combine to create a class that not only engages students but also teaches them practical data-analysis skills.

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pedagogynamesonomasticstoponymshypocoristicsgeneral linguistics

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Language , Volume 94 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. e293 - e310
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Copyright © 2018 Linguistic Society of America

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