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Online Dating Usernames. Semantic Analysis
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This paper presents online dating-site nicknames created by Polish-speaking users. After a theoretical introduction about comments on the functioning of dating sites, terminological considerations about the online nickname against other anthroponyms, and the presentation of the nicknames’ functions in relation to the current classification of the functions of literary works’ titles found in translation literature, the results of the study were presented, which included over 30,000 real names out of 1.3 million existing logins. The analysis has revealed that the classification proposed by Bechar-Israeli is still valid. Nicknames belong to the following main categories: pertaining to a person’s self: first names, character traits or physical appearance; related to literature, fairy tales, characters from films, plays, and television; named after famous people; related to flora and fauna; related to the medium, technology, computer names; containing play with language and typography; sex-related and provocative. The list of excerpted names contained a huge number of nicknames influenced by English or derived from anthroponyms.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/ff.2019.37.2.121-132
Date of publication: 2019-12-31 19:00:37
Date of submission: 2019-01-26 20:32:32
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