A Question of Faith: An Investigation of Suggested Racial Ethnonyms for Enumerating US American Residents of Muslim, Middle Eastern, and/or Arab Descent on the US Census

Nick, I. M.

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“…Personal names serve more functions than simply providing identification. They also often contain meaningful information, such as social psychological processes (Allen et al 1941), esthetic values (Finch et al 1944), ethnicity-specific characteristics (Nick 2017(Nick 2013, and ideology (Bloothooft & Groot 2008). For this reason, research on names has been an attractive area of study in many fields.…”

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Use of a Matching Preference Index to Empirically Examine Distribution Imbalances in Beijing Citizens’ Names

Zhao

Chen

2021

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Personal names contain considerable meaningful information about biological and social characteristics of the name-bearer. They also routinely contain important data about cultural preferences in the naming process. Access to this level of information has been limited in the past by a lack of access to large-scale empirical data. As this investigation demonstrates, by utilizing a reliable large-scale sample of Beijing citizens, it is possible to empirically demonstrate onomastic imbalances in the occurrence of Chinese surnames, given names, and full names. In particular, this paper explores the matching imbalance between Chinese surnames and given names, a phenomenon which has as yet received scant attention in onomastic literature. As this article demonstrates, our innovative quantitative approach makes it possible to reveal statistically significant differences between real names and “random-matching names” that reflect a matching imbalance and imply the probable existence of underlying cultural preferences in Chinese naming processes. The key to this approach is generating a matching preference index (MPI) for names in a dataset. Alongside explaining how this approach is used, this paper offers possible reasons to explain why specific names have higher or lower MPI rankings. As this paper argues, one of the main reasons for these empirical differences may be found in special associations name-givers have within Chinese culture.

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Use of a Matching Preference Index to Empirically Examine Distribution Imbalances in Beijing Citizens’ Names

Zhao

Chen

2021

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“…The fact that PNs are frequently essential "for identification of an object or person" means that their absence can result in "the absence of an identity" (Aksholakova 2014, 466-67). However, according to Zhao et al (2021, 42), "[p]ersonal names serve more functions than simply providing identification" since, in some cases, they may "contain meaningful information" including "ideology" (Bloothooft & Groot 2008) and "ethnicity-specific characteristics" (Nick 2013(Nick , 2017. That is the reason people usually "make assumptions based on a person's name" (Chen 2021, 12).…”

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How Three Different Translators of The Holy Qur’an Render Anthroponyms from Arabic into English

Afrouz

2021

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The present paper examines anthroponyms in the Holy Qur'an in three different English translations to shed light on how procedures used by translators can help target-language (TL) readers understand the implied meaning of anthroponyms. In order to conduct the research, the anthroponyms in the Holy Qur'an were isolated and English equivalents were identified. Then Vermes’s (2003) model was applied to the collected data to find answers to the following research questions: (1) What strategies are used most frequently by the translators examined to render the Qur’anic anthroponyms into the target-language (TL)?; (2) How consistent are the translators in using particular strategies when translating the anthroponyms?; (3) Does the type of translator affect their choice of translation strategy?; (4) Does the model suggested by Vermes (2003) cover all of the strategies employed by the three translators?; and (5) Which procedures are source-language-oriented, TL-oriented, or deep-reader oriented? Overall, the findings indicated that the procedures most frequently used by the translators were “substitution” and “transference.” It was found that the native speaker of neither Arabic nor English foreignized 96.80% of the Qur’anic anthroponyms by using “transference,” while the native translators of either the target-language or the source-language domesticated 71.00% of the anthroponyms by using “substitution.” “Substitution” was used when an exact Biblical equivalent for the Qur’anic anthroponym existed. Otherwise, “transference” was used along with notes to transport the meaning and form while remaining faithful to the intended meaning of the sacred text.

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A Question of Faith: An Investigation of Suggested Racial Ethnonyms for Enumerating US American Residents of Muslim, Middle Eastern, and/or Arab Descent on the US Census

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

Use of a Matching Preference Index to Empirically Examine Distribution Imbalances in Beijing Citizens’ Names

Use of a Matching Preference Index to Empirically Examine Distribution Imbalances in Beijing Citizens’ Names

How Three Different Translators of The Holy Qur’an Render Anthroponyms from Arabic into English

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