Naming and Transplanted Traditions: Change and Continuity in Glasgow's Pakistani Muslim Community

• Autores: Ellen S. Bramwell
• Localización: Onoma: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, ISSN 0078-463X, Nº. 46, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Names and minorities), págs. 29-51
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • If the premise is assumed that naming practices are dependent on the society and culture in which they occur, an intriguing question arises: what happens to these naming practices when they are transplanted into another society with its own naming traditions? Are the distinct naming practices lost as their users assimilate into another culture? Do they continue intact? Or do they evolve in conjunction with the new situation? This article investigates these questions directly through an analysis of naming practices within the Pakistani Muslim community in Glasgow. Specifically, it considers all aspects of naming in this community and relates them to how and whether name usage has changed as a result of migration.