Nicknames, Identity, and Social Power
| dc.contributor.author | Morris, Abby | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-08T19:57:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-08T19:57:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-05-07 | |
| dc.description | Julia Rogers Research Prize: Junior/Senior Winner, 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Nicknaming, a practice by which a person’s name is shortened, warped, or replaced entirely, can be just as complicated. Much like a given name, nicknames can serve several different social purposes dependent upon the culture, purpose behind the nickname, the person named, and the person doing the naming. As a practice, nicknames perform a startlingly diverse range of functions, and are worth examining in all these capacities. Beyond the practicality of simplifying a name, nicknames can serve to show affection to the named, to demean them, to anonymize them, or to shape their behaviors. Just as a person’s given name is part of their identity, the nicknames that they accrue can bend that identity situationally, making them a subtle tool for constructing power. | |
| dc.format.extent | 9 pages | |
| dc.genre | research articles | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2vexe-7dcf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/33671 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Goucher College, Baltimore, MD | |
| dc.rights | Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu. | |
| dc.title | Nicknames, Identity, and Social Power | |
| dc.type | Text |
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