{"id":346,"date":"2019-08-15T20:50:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=346"},"modified":"2019-08-23T23:31:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T21:31:51","slug":"navnesymbolik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Navnesymbolik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeg husker da min danskl\u00e6rer i niende klasse fortalte, at navnesymbolik var almindeligt brugt ogs\u00e5 i “seri\u00f8s” litteratur. Det var vist i forbindelse med en gennemgang af Fiskerne<\/em>, i hvilken en intrigant biperson hedder Splid eller Spliid. At d\u00f8mme efter de vantro grin i klassen, var det ikke noget ret mange havde forventet at st\u00f8de p\u00e5 uden for Anders And.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeg kan sagtens se navnesymbolik som en forsvarlig del af en forfatters v\u00e6rkt\u00f8jskasse, men jeg synes ogs\u00e5 det meget nemt kan blive lige konstrueret nok. Som fx Salingers Seymour Glass, som min engelskl\u00e6rer i gymnasiet p\u00e5pegede var b\u00e5de klartseende og skr\u00f8belig. OK s\u00e5. Men lidt komisk forekommer det mig nu alligevel, s\u00e5 meget h\u00e6nger min barndoms Disney-l\u00e6sning stadig ved – og et eller andet sted er der alts\u00e5 ogs\u00e5 noget mere \u00e6rligt <\/em>over et in-your-face-navn som Blabaway Utterbunk (tak til Carl Barks for det!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P\u00e5 den anden side – st\u00e5r virkeligheden egentlig tilbage for fiktionen? Fra sportens verden kender vi h\u00e5ndboldspilleren Joachim Boldsen, tennisspilleren Anna Smashnova og sprinteren Usain Bolt, og jeg har noteret mig mange andre eksempler i \u00e5renes l\u00f8b. For nylig l\u00e6ste jeg bogen Quirkology<\/em> af Richard Wiseman. Den indeholder et kapitel om forskning der peger p\u00e5, at folks navne kan influere deres livsvalg, fx hvilke stillinger de ender i. Jeg stiller mig nu en smule skeptisk, men eksemplerne er herlig l\u00e6sning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to being interesting in its own right, Pelham’s work may at last provide an explanation for an effect that has fascinated psychologists for decades: Why does the meaning of people’s surnames so often match their chosen occupation?<\/em>
\n\n     \nIn 1975, Lawrence Casler from the State University of New York at Geneseo compiled a list of over 200 academics working in fields associated with their last names. Casler’s list includes an underwater archeologist called Bass, a relationship counsellor called Breedlove, a taxation expert named Due, a medic studying diseases of the vulva called Hyman, and an educational psychologist examining parental pressure called Mumpower. In the later 1990s, <\/em>New Scientist magazine asked readers to send in similar examples from their own lives. The resulting list included music teachers Miss Beat and Miss Sharp, members of the British Meteorolical office called Flood, Frost, Thundercliffe and Weatherall, a sex counsellor named Lust, Peter Atchoo the pneumonia specialist, a firm of lawyers named Lawless and Lynch, private detectives Wyre & Tapping, and the head of a psychiatric hospital, Dr McNutt. My own favourites are the authors of the book <\/em>A Student’s Guide to the Seashore, John and Susan Fish.<\/em>
\n\n     \nPelham’s work suggests that examples like this may not be entirely the result of chance, but rather of some people being unconsciously drawn to occupations related to their name. As a professor of psychology called Wiseman, I am in no position to be sceptical about the theory.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bogen Freakonomics<\/em> af Steven D. Levitt og Stephen J. Dubner indeholder et lignende kapitel om navnes indflydelse. Pudsigt i sig selv at Quirkology<\/em> og Freakonomics<\/em> er samme type b\u00f8ger, lufthavnsvenlige (“stuffed with the kind of offbeat insight that people find irresistible” skrev The Times <\/em>om f\u00f8rstn\u00e6vnte), og tilmed med us\u00e6dvanlige titler sk\u00e5ret over samme l\u00e6st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeg husker da min danskl\u00e6rer i niende klasse fortalte, at navnesymbolik var almindeligt brugt ogs\u00e5 i “seri\u00f8s” litteratur. Det var vist i forbindelse med en gennemgang af Fiskerne, i hvilken en intrigant biperson hedder Splid eller Spliid. At d\u00f8mme efter de vantro grin i klassen, var det ikke noget ret mange havde forventet at st\u00f8de … <\/p>\n

L\u00e6s videre “Navnesymbolik”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}