This paper examines the distribution and function of nicknames in a Castilian mountain village. It seeks to show that nicknames can only be understood through analyzing the different ways they are employed among discrete segments of the community. Comparative data are used to determine why nicknames seem to flourish only in communities of a limited population range.
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Stanley Brandes (1975) studied this question.
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