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Sosiolinguistiese aspekte van die persoonsnaam : met spesifieke verwysing na die invloed van sosio-ekonomiese klas
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1990) Smit, Janetta Debora; de Stadler, L. G.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The personal name stock of a language includes those elements of the language which often are to a great extent subjected to the influence of specific social parameters. As a result, characteristics of the social structure of a society are often reflected in the process of naming, and the personal name is often related to the social attributes of a specific person. Naming in the South African society, and the different ways in which some social parameters are being reflected in South African naming patterns, are investigated in this study. The parameters which are discussed are i) sex (male vs. female), ii) age (old vs. young), iii) family relations, iv) religious relations, v) national relations, vi) racial classification and vii) socioeconomic class. Fieldwork research has been done on the lastnamed parameter. The study showed that personal names in the South African society are not only a linguistic issue, but reveals a special social content too, and forces the investigator to conclude that there is an undoubted relation between the personal name and the abovenamed parameters in the South African society.