Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques (Dec 2006)

La fonction prénominale

  • Colette Méchin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/rsa.579
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 37, no. 2
pp. 165 – 180

Abstract

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Choosing a first name in France is an important and meaningful issue. A study of the phenomenon allows for 1. revisiting the cliché of opting slavishly for “in names” 2. complexifying the process involved 3. questioning the code which made for repetition of traditional first names.