Abstract

For more than a decade, the American Name Society has singled out an outstanding article to be given the Best Article of the Year Award. To select the publication to receive this prestigious honor, each of the members of the Editorial Board independently reviewed all of the articles that had been published in 2020.

Highlights

  • For more than a decade, the American Name Society has singled out an outstanding article to be given the Best Article of the Year Award

  • Board Members were asked to select the publications which they felt possessed the highest degree of creativity; had the greatest potential to make a substantive contribution to onomastics; and demonstrated the best writing style

  • In alphabetical order by primary author, the following publications were selected as the top four articles for 2020: (1) “‘Harry, You Must Stop Living in the Past:’ Names as Acts of Recall in John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom” by Peter Backhaus (Waseda University, Tokyo, JAPAN) which appeared in NAMES 68, no. 4: 210–221; (2); “Women’s Marital Surname Change by Bride’s Age and Jurisdiction of Residence: A Replication” by Melanie MacEacheron (Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA) from NAMES 68, no. 4: 193–209; (3) “Corpus-Linguistic Onomastics: A Plea for a Corpus-Based Investigation of Names” by Heiko Motschenbacher (Western Norway University, Bergen, NORWAY) in NAMES 68, no. 2: 66–103; and (4) “Simplex Generic Toponyms in Four Englishspeaking Jurisdictions” by Jan Tent (MacQuarie University, Canberra, Australia) in NAMES 68, no. 1: 17–31

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Introduction

For more than a decade, the American Name Society has singled out an outstanding article to be given the Best Article of the Year Award. To select the publication to receive this prestigious honor, each of the members of the Editorial Board independently reviewed all of the articles that had been published in 2020. Board Members were asked to select the publications which they felt possessed the highest degree of creativity; had the greatest potential to make a substantive contribution to onomastics; and demonstrated the best writing style.

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