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Naming and war in modern Germany

  • This paper analyzes naming behavior in Germany in the context of rapid social change. It begins with an overview of general developments in naming in Germany over the last one hundred years, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which supplies us with almost 45,000 datasets. The paper focuses on the periods of World War II and the Cold War since we conclude that general developments in naming were disrupted by these two phenomena. Wartime brings accelerated social change in its wake and people react to this social change - often on an apparently individual level. Here, our findings are in accordance with established sociological theories.

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Author details:Anja Bruhn, Denis Huschka, Gert G. WagnerORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1179/0027773812Z.00000000011
ISSN:0027-7738
Title of parent work (English):Names : a journal of onomastics
Publisher:Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publishing:Leeds
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Year of first publication:2012
Publication year:2012
Release date:2017/03/26
Tag:Cold War; Germany; SOEP; World War II; naming
Volume:60
Issue:2
Number of pages:16
First page:74
Last Page:89
Organizational units:Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik
Peer review:Referiert
Institution name at the time of the publication:Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
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