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This interdisciplinary study examines how transgender individuals change their names in the course of their gender transition. It reveals the enormous social significance of first names in interpersonal communication and managing gender – along with other social differences – thereby showing the close interrelationships between language, law, and society in this realm.
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Keywords
- first names
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Language
- Linguistics
- name changes
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Semiotics / semiology
- sex
- Social groups
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTD Semiotics / semiology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
- transgender
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DOI: 10.1515/9783110689402Editions