What’s in a name? Naming in the T.V.-series LOST by Stefan Langenbach

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2010 within the topic English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature reports, grade: 2,0, collage of Cologne (Philosophische Fakultät / Englische Seminar 1), path: Onomastics, language: English, summary: 1Intro
2Names of theotechny
2.1Benjamin Linus
2.2James (Sawyer) Ford
2.3Jacob
2.4Desmond and Penelope
2.5Dharma
2.6Christian Shephard
3Famous names
3.1Henry Gale
3.2Daniel Faraday
3.3Desmond David Hume
3.4Danielle Rousseau
3.5Further references
4Reference to literature
4.1The adventures of Tom Sawyer
4.2The Wizard of Oz
4.3Lord of the flies
4.4Addendum
5Anagrams
5.1Ethan Rome
5.2Mittelos Bioscience
5.3Herarat Aviation
5.3.1Amelia Earhart
5.3.2A edition earth
5.4Further Anagrams
6Mixed patterns
6.1Gale Island
6.2Linus
6.3Sayid Jarrah
6.4Claire Littelton
6.5Jack’s Tattoo
6.6Literal that means of names
7Conclusion

Until the 9th century it used to be not really to have a primary and a final identify, yet via that point issues began to swap. In Venice the indication of surnames started during this period of time, France (10th/11th century) and the German-speaking quarter (12th century) this instance (Kohlheim 1996: 1280), so the typical perform of naming replaced and thenceforth humans have been known as through either, forename and surname. This giving of names resulted in the technology of onomastics – representing a separate self-discipline (Wittkowski 1995: 289) -, whose objective essentially is "die Geschichte und den Gebrauch eines Namens zu klären und mögliche Schlüsse daraus zu ziehen" (Hansack 2004: 51), because the personality of naming had brought on humans to consider the that means of non-public names for hundreds of years (Eichler 1995: 2). Such name-interpreting may also take the function of a poetic equipment and by means of this implies as literary onomastic (Hansack 2004: fifty one) functionality as a hyperlink among linguistic and literary reports relating "the research of how names functionality in fiction" (Ashley 1989: 198). the subsequent time period paper will soak up this and as a result pay attention to the names of the characters within the television sequence misplaced. this concept got here up after analyzing a piece of writing by means of Matthew Gilbert, who quoted Damon Lindelof - one of many makers of misplaced - pointing out that no longer one identify of the island’s population used to be selected by the way yet that each unmarried identify had a distinct that means about the storyline (Gilbert 2005). Lindelof and co-producer J. J. Abrahams used "names that gesture outward from the sequence" in a fashion that "name[s] assists [the] definition of character[s], suggesting clues of […] character" and are an "entrance to that what [they] represent[s]; course; previous, present or destiny place" (Rowden 2000: a hundred and fifteen) and hence performed "the identify video game fairly shrewdly" (Gilbert 2005).