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This study investigates the influence of ethnic conflict on the naming conventions of the Baloch community in Balochistan, Pakistan. The objectives are twofold: to identify the types of names commonly used and to examine how ethnic conflict has shaped Baloch naming practices. Using a qualitative approach and a socio-onomastics framework, the study explores the interaction between Baloch society, culture, and naming conventions. The results indicate that Balochi historical Names are the most prevalent, followed by nationalist's names. Another widely noticed approach observed in the study is the Balochicization of foreign names. The findings indicate that the recent insurgency has led to a heightened sense of ownership of Baloch culture and customs, including naming practices. The current research holds great importance due to limited studies on Baloch naming practices, especially in the context of post-conflict dynamics.

The most significant changes on the toponymic map of modern Greece occurred during the interwar period, following the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1924, which resulted from their previous war. However, the process of toponymic renaming has served the ideology of "purification" since the 19th century and thus the use of place names as evidence of "Greekness" has been of great importance. However, despite the official strategy of (re)naming, the resilience of older toponyms is remarkable - precisely because it reveals their importance in the construction of identity memory. In this paper, we explore both the linguistic strategies of toponymic renaming in Greece and their ideological context, examining how the new place names affected the ideology of identity. We also present two typical examples where the use or the renaming of a toponym has led to sharp disputes and was of crucial importance.

The subject of this article is the renaming campaign of streets in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014. The renaming process was analysed in two main aspects: linguistic and broader ethnocultural. Within the linguistic aspect, it was established that in most cases, the renaming occurs within the same category, i.e., an anthroponym is replaced by an anthroponym, a toponym by a toponym, with anthroponyms performing primarily a commemorative function. These two categories of proper names play a primary role in the formation of urbanonyms. Some other classes, such as names of urban objects and common nouns, are also productive. The ethnocultural analysis highlighted some significant features of the process of forming a new Ukrainian identity. First and foremost, it involves the rejection of any Russian influences. The creation of a new Ukrainian myth relies on the Ukrainian pantheon, consisting of outstanding figures in science and culture, politicians, and military leaders from both the past and present, whose memory is now commemorated in street names. A significant element in forming the new myth is also the symbolic appropriation of geographical space. Ukrainian streets now bear the names of geographical objects located in Ukraine or friendly countries, with the foreign toponyms indicating the direction of Ukraine's international relations. The return of old historical names and microtoponyms to the city's map played a significant role in the renaming process, contributing to the preservation of historical memory and continuity. A new trend is the use of collective names, mainly designations of military units, whose memory is commemorated in street names.

After the end of World War II, several streets in then Czechoslovakia were named in honour of various Red Army marshals, including I. S. Konev (1897- 1973), although this commander was still alive at the time. After the fall of communism in the early 1990s, many street names commemorating the former regime were removed. However, the decommunisation, derussification, and decolonization of the Czech public space were not completely carried out. Although several streets honouring Konev have disappeared, most of them remain on the map of the contemporary Czech Republic. Prague's recent effort to rename street Kon & ecaron;vova has sparked a society-wide debate about this controversial figure and the need to come to terms with the past. However, the renaming effort has dragged on for many years. The impetus that finally made it possible was the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022.

This article examines the historical context and key outcomes of the 1938 Premier Congr & egrave;s International de Toponymie et dA'nthroponymie, held in Paris. This groundbreaking event, organised by Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, gathered scholars from 21 countries to discuss the preservation and study of place names and personal names as essential cultural heritage. The event underscored the role of onomastics in preserving linguistic and cultural identity. Its resolutions proposed standardised methodologies and international collaboration, laying foundations for modern onomastic studies. Through these collective efforts, the congress marked an essential step in uniting global scholars and establishing research priorities that would endure despite the interruption of World War II.

The names of railway companies display a clear structure, derived in the UK from earlier practice with turnpikes and canals. Using Donald Grant's comprehensive 2017 Directory of the railway companies of Great Britain, the name structures of UK railway companies are classified and exemplified, with numerical and percentual tallies for the various types. Typical components of railway company names are toponyms (place names and regional names), transport mode (Railway) and qualifiers which may underline the size of the company (Great Western Railway, etc.) and clarify company ownership (such as Joint Railway for joint ownership), for the main traffic conveyed (e.g., Mineral Railway) or for a lower standard of infrastructure (Light Railway). Differing stress patterns and abbreviations of names are also touched on and explanations sought. The basic principles of company naming are in use in modified form to this very day.

Name typology is key to understanding the naming systems among cultures across the globe. Currently, there are socio-onomastic typologies for place, personal, and church names but not for plant names. What is known about plants is the standardized binomial system regulated by the International Code of Nomenclature. This paper thus adopts a socio-onomastic approach to offer a typology of plant names among the Asantes in Ghana through a socio-onomastic lens. Herbalists and elders from Asante communities in the Ashanti and Ahafo Regions were interviewed regarding the history, pragmatics, and semantics of plant names. Drawing on the social, historical, and linguistic insights from the interview data, as well as our knowledge as members of the Asante speech communities, the paper categorizes the names based on identifiable themes. The plants are classified based on historical, sociocultural, semantic, pragmatic, and ethno-phytomorphological factors. The study reveals that the naming of plants is influenced by both endogenous and exogenous factors, which respectively concern the Asante worldview and cross-cultural contact.

The study explores the concepts of toponymic attachment and toponymic detachment in urban environments, focusing on how naming practices reflect place detachment amid urban change. It highlights the role of toponymic detachment as a means of addressing dissonant pasts. Through interviews with residents of the Vuosaari neighbourhood, Helsinki, the study examines how people perceive and use place names, both official and unofficial, and how these practices relate to their sense of place and identity. By examining two specific examples of naming practices in Vuosaari, the article illustrates and makes visible the politics of naming. The research utilizes folk onomastics to analyse discussions about names, emphasizing the dialogic relationship between people and places.

The paper analyses case distributions of the names of Eastern European countries in mainstream and alternative media. Case distributions are lists of grammatical cases (the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, and instrumental-the vocative was excluded due to low frequencies) in which a particular name is used and their frequencies in the given set of texts. The articles are taken from the respective parts of the ONLINE2_ARCHIVE corpus, with the period research being 1 January 2022 to 31 October 2023. It has been found out that all the country names occur statistically significantly more in the alternative media corpus than in the mainstream media one. As concerns the case distributions, 64% of the analysed cases behave differently in the two corpora. The most pronounced finding is an overall backgrounding of the locative in favour of other cases with less neutral meanings-Lithuania and Latvia occur more in the genitive, Russia's frequencies rise in the dative, instrumental, and accusative, and Ukraine appears more in the nominative.