Open AccessHuman Life And Activities Reflected In English Field-Names
Author(s) -
John Field
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
names
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1756-2279
pISSN - 0027-7738
DOI - 10.1179/nam.1989.37.1.31
Subject(s) - honor , field (mathematics) , politics , persuasion , rank (graph theory) , literature , history , sociology , art , law , psychology , social psychology , political science , computer science , mathematics , combinatorics , pure mathematics , operating system
Three or four categories of English field-names refer closely to human beings and their activities. Some allude to ownership and include a personal name (e.g., Forman's Close or Old Mary's Field), a description (e.g., Heiress's Land or Grammum's Croft) or a rank or profession (e.g., Lord's Acre, Bishop's Close, or Bakerland). Others honor national heroes (e.g., Wellington or Nelson) or commemorate great men who favored the name-giver's political or religious persuasion. These names are drawn from a wide repertoire and throw light on social and agricultural life in former times and on the complexity of name-giving motivation.