University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Community Based Study of Married Women's Naming Practices: Norms and Traditions, Individual Identity, and Meaning
Abstract
dc:descriptionMy research provided two main findings. First, while all participants in the study changed their names in form, there was resistance to the predetermined meaning of the practice of patronymy across all categories of analysis---norms and traditions; individual identity; and meaning. The second main finding presented an organic model of the interrelationships among linguistic practice; meaning; and individual identity. As opposed to a monolithic model that assumes a one-to-one correlation between patronymy and a singular meaning representing a monolithic group of women, an organic model acknowledges that the meanings proscribed to this practice vary, which in turn affords a multiplicity of identities women can inhabit.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Speech Communication
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Suter, Elizabeth Ann
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Press, Andrea L.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3017225
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87498