Unconventional Anthroponyms ― Formation Patterns and Discursive Function

Daiana and Oliviu Felecan are Associate Professors (Readers) at the North University Centre of Baia Mare at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. They co-edited Linguistic and Philological Confluences (2011).Dr. Daiana Felecan has published several books in the field of linguistics, such as The Language of Romanian Drama in the First Half of the 19th Century (2004); The Grammar of the Romanian Language in Literary Contexts (2007); Aspects of Linguistic Polyphony. Theory and Construction (2011); and Pragmatics of Unconventional Names and Naming: From Theoretical Paradigms to Discursive Practices (2014).Dr. Oliviu Felecan has published several works in the areas of sociolinguistics and onomastics, including The Concept of Work-A Diacronic Sociolinguistic Perspective (2004); The Romanian Language in European Context (2009); Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (2012); An Onomastic Excursion into Contemporary Romanian Public Space (2013); and Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space (2013, co-edited with Alina Bughesiu).