Of Barbers and Bottle Shops: Naming Businesses in South Africa
Abstract It is well-known that African personal names are acts of linguistic creativity, in which almost any word, phrase or sentence may serve as an input base. Preliminary examination of a corpus of business names, collected during 1992-1996, suggests the same. Names are coined by both business ow...
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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
1999-09-01
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| Series: | Names |
| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1556 |