This book gives a sociolinguistic account of Syrian Christian and Telugu Catholic personal names. Unlike previous works on the linguistic or sociolinguistic ana

The contribution of this book to existing work in socio-onomastic research is its treatment of the official and unofficial names of the two Indian Christian com

Onomastics is an area of scholarly interest that has grown considerably in importance in recent years. Consequently, the 27th International Congress of Onomasti

History of Saint Thomas Christians; with reference to Kerala, India.

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics