Transgressive practices of self-naming: Marking differences through free name changes in Sweden

从本体的角度来看，子项目研究人们通过改变自己的名字来进行自我分类。作为人类最重要的语言标签，名字与其他标记如服装和习惯一样，表明了社会关系，因此对人类的分化做出了重要贡献。由于名字不具有任何语义，因此在很大程度上适合于标记社会归属的形式，如性别、阶级、年龄、宗教、种族等。在我们的研究中，自由改名和自我命名的罕见情况允许在自己的身份中编码差异；通过出生时给出的名字进行的外部分类被个人对各种社会类别的定位所取代。该项目旨在研究在自由更改名称是合法的，甚至是由国家推动的情况下，通过自命名行为突出了哪些类别从属关系。瑞典的情况就是这样：瑞典的命名法允许最自由和舒适地处理名称更改。与第一个项目阶段相反，新项目不想根据先前定义的文化差异来分析自己选择的名称。相反，重点在于那些与演员本身相关的社会关系，以及那些通过名字选择而不可见的关系（做与不做的差异）。

From an onomastic perspective, the sub-project studies the self-categorisation people perform by changing their given names. Being the most important linguistic labels for humans, given names, alongside other markers like clothing and habitus, indicate social affiliations and thus make a crucial contribution to human differentiation. As names don't bear any semantics, they are to a high degree suitable for marking forms of social belonging in terms of gender, class, age, religion, ethnicity etc. The rare case of free name change and self-naming that is subject to our study allows for encoding differences in one's own identity; the external categorisation through the name given at birth is replaced by the individual alignment to various social categories. The project aims at examining which categorical affiliations are highlighted through the act of self-naming when the free change of names is legal and even promoted by the state. This is the case in Sweden: The Swedish naming law allows an utmost liberal and comfortable handling of name changes. Contrary to the first project phase, the new project does not want to analyse the self-chosen names according to a previously defined cultural difference. Instead, the focus lies on those social affiliations that are made relevant by the actors themselves, as well as on those affiliations that are made invisible through the name choice (doing & undoing difference).