Open AccessA Sociolinguistic Analysis of Personal Naming in Jordan
Author(s) -
Majid Tarawneh,
Duaa Hajjaj
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics and english literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2200-3592
pISSN - 2200-3452
DOI - 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.10n.5p.40
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , politics , psychology , distribution (mathematics) , social psychology , sociology , political science , communication , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics
This study aims to better understand the sociolingustic factors that affect personal naming in Jordan by looking at five specific factors that affect it: religious, cultural, political, naming after someone, and musicality. It examines how these five factors affect the personal naming in respect to gender, generation, and geographical distribution in Jordan. The study also seeks to determine which of the five factors are the most and which are the least influential for naming practices in Jordan. To this end, 300 names were collected and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, with the results showing that these factors affect gender, generation, and geographical distribution in different ways. It also showed that the religious factor is the most frequent, whereas, the political factor is the least.