Stefan Langenbach

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

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Philosophische Fakultät / Englische Seminar 1), course: Onomastics, language: English, comment: Auch andere Literatur, die die Namensgebung betrifft und unabhängig von LOST ist, wird berücksichtigt. , abstract: 1 Intro 2 Names of theotechny 2.1 Benjamin Linus 2.2 James (Sawyer) Ford 2.3 Jacob 2.4 Desmond and Penelope 2.5 Dharma 2.6 Christian Shephard 3 Famous names 3.1 Henry Gale 3.2 Daniel Faraday 3.3 Desmond David Hume 3.4 Danielle Rousseau 3.5 Further references 4 Reference to literature 4.1 The adventures of Tom Sawyer 4.2 The Wizard of Oz 4.3 Lord of the flies 4.4 Addendum 5 Anagrams 5.1 Ethan Rome 5.2 Mittelos Bioscience 5.3 Herarat Aviation 5.3.1 Amelia Earhart 5.3.2 A variation earth 5.4 Further Anagrams 6 Mixed patterns 6.1 Gale Island 6.2 Linus 6.3 Sayid Jarrah 6.4 Claire Littelton 6.5 Jack's Tattoo 6.6 Literal meaning of names 7 Conclusion Until the ninth century it was not likely to have a first and a last name, but by that time things started to change. In Venice the indication of surnames began in this time period, France (10th/11th century) and the German-speaking area (12th century) followed this example (Kohlheim 1996: 1280), so the common practice of naming changed and thenceforth people were called by both, forename and surname. This giving of names led to the science of onomastics - representing a separate discipline (Wittkowski 1995: 289) -, whose purpose basically is "die Geschichte und den Gebrauch eines Namens zu klären und mögliche Schlüsse daraus zu ziehen" (Hansack 2004: 51), as the character of naming had caused people to think about the meaning of personal names for centuries (Eichler 1995: 2). Such name-interpreting can also take the role of a poetic device and by this means as literary onomastic (Hansack 2004: 51) function as a link between linguistic and literary studies bearing on "the study of the