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

从专有名词的角度来看，这个子项目研究人们通过改变自己的名字来进行自我归类。作为人类最重要的语言标签，名字与服装、习惯等其他标记一起，表明了社会联系，从而对人类的分化做出了至关重要的贡献。由于名字没有任何语义，它们在很大程度上适合于从性别、阶级、年龄、宗教、种族等方面标记社会归属感的形式。我们的研究涉及的自由更名和自我命名的罕见情况允许编码一个人自己身份的差异；通过出生时给出的名字的外部分类被个体对各种社会类别的对齐取代。该项目旨在研究当自由更名是合法的，甚至是国家推动的时，通过自我命名的行为突出了哪些类别的从属关系。瑞典的情况就是如此：瑞典的命名法允许最大限度地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字。相反，重点在于那些由演员本身变得相关的社会从属关系，以及那些通过名称选择而变得不可见的从属关系(做和取消差异)。

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).