Namn i tiden? : Socialkonstruktivistisk analys av namnbruk i barnlitteratur

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study is to examine first names in Swedish children’s literature, to see whether they reflect our age’s name patterns. The main focus is multilingual names, and fashionable name patterns. The result determines that 16 % of the names are multilingual, compared to our society’s 10 %. Concerning modern name patterns, a majority of the names are fashionable in some sense.