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Logonym

Logonym is a polysemic term, and a neologism. The term has several meanings, spanning across different fields of study. It was primarily defined as a term that designates various types of titles, including titles of literary and other artistic works, and also came to designate titles of business firms and their products, including their acronyms. The term also has a specific meaning in biological classification, and some authors have used the term as an alternative designation for the proper names of languages, but such use could not replace previously established onomastic terms, that are commonly used as designations for the onomastic class of language names.

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Logonym is a polysemic term, and a neologism (coined from Greek: λόγος / word, and Greek: ὄνομα / name). The term has several meanings, spanning across different fields of study. It was primarily defined as a term that designates various types of titles, including titles of literary and other artistic works,1 and also came to designate titles of business firms and their products, including their acronyms.2 The term also has a specific meaning in biological classification,3 and some authors have used the term as an alternative designation for the proper names of languages,4 but such use could not replace previously established onomastic terms (linguonyms, glossonyms, glottonyms),5 that are commonly used as designations for the onomastic class of language names.678910

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  1. Room 1996, p. 57.
  2. Wicklander 1978, p. 218.
  3. Dubois 2000, p. 33-98.
  4. Klamer 2010, p. 3, 7, 13, 511, 537.
  5. Picone 2015, p. 268.
  6. Goebl 1979, p. 7–38.
  7. Back 1988, p. 5–9.
  8. Good & Cysouw 2013, p. 339-342.
  9. Kikvidze 2013, p. 194-198.
  10. Peetermans 2016.
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