Nickname as common among women – Aftonbladet

Research. Lill-Babs, Tessan and Pillan. Many Swedes are often called by a nickname.

And contrary to what previous research has shown that women receive nicknames just as much as men .

Nickname arising in the immediate circle of family and relatives. Extras name as your partner comes on. The fact that women usually get their nickname in more intimate environments enables researchers previously missed that women as much as men get an additional name.

– The difference in results is due how the material has been collected. When using the sports-based material or downloading materials from the school environment, then one can get a skewed result, says Linnea Gustafsson, PhD in Nordic languages ​​at Halmstad University.

Shutter giving nicknames

Through surveys with more than 200 employees and 22 in-depth interviews Linnea Gustafsson have been able to arrive at different conclusions. Women as well as men get their nickname from childhood and school age, but the environment in which the names occur and the spread they receive differ.

– Men get their nickname at school, leisure or sport. Women get them in more intimate environments and nicknames tend to remain in the environment they were created in, says Gustafsson.

Her study, which only Swedish citizens over 18 years were included, also shows that we largely stop giving each other nicknames when we become adults.

– man, they may have before they are 20 years old. Since there will be almost no more.

Most intimate nicknames

Nickname in relationships, we tend, however, to give each other even in adulthood.

– The most intimate is the nicknames you have in relationships. But in some cases it has been so intimately that they have not wanted to tell me the nickname. When it is used not in a public way, she says.

HH: Do you have a nickname?

– I called Nea. It has not spread but are just my absolute childhood family. It’s just my mom, dad, brother and sister who says Nea, but no one else, says Linnea Gustafsson.

FACTS

Known nickname

Lill-Babs – artist Barbro Svensson

Husky – businessman Marcus Wallenberg

Poker – businessman Peter Wallenberg (the Wallenberg family has several representatives established nickname)

Babben – comic Barbro Larsson

Nanne – artist Marianne Grönvall

Foppa – former hockey star Peter Forsberg

Tessan – simstjärnan Therese Alshammar

Pillan – former skier Pernilla Wiberg

1 september 2016 05:46