Some Cultural Features of Vietnamese Personal Names

DOI

10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.483How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cultural features; culture society; name; Vietnamese personal name

Abstract

Personal name is not only the identification symbol for unique person, but it also contains the historic, traditional, cultural, social information of each person and certain ethnic or nation. Vietnamese personal names and the ways of naming reflect many features of Vietnamese culture. In this paper, the descriptive method has been used to display the features of Vietnamese personal names with the aim of showing the principle of naming in Vietnam especially some cultural features of Vietnamese names. As a result, readers can understand more about Vietnamese custom, habit and tradition relating to personal names

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Le Thi Minh Thao
AU  - Le Van Thanh
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - Some Cultural Features of Vietnamese Personal Names
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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