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Sutton, Laurel. "Aliens Are Just Like Us: Personal Names in The Legion of Super-Heroes." Names 64. (2016): 109–19. Added by: joachim (7/26/20, 6:22 PM) Last edited by: joachim (7/26/20, 6:23 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2016.1159446 BibTeX citation key: Sutton2016 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "The Legion of Super-Heroes", Language, Superhero, USA Creators: Sutton Collection: Names |
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Names created for alien comic-book characters in the 1960s provide an insight into cultural naming norms of the time; personal names had to be structurally familiar, so that readers could relate to them, yet different enough to seem other-worldly and/or futuristic. This analysis focuses on the personal names of The Legion of Super-Heroes, a team of super-powered teenagers from the thirty-first century. Their invented names conform sharply to English-speaking US American norms in terms of gender marking through syllable count and phonetic choice. The names of the future are very much like those of mid-twentieth-century American comic-book readers.
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