Research paper abstract

My research Project is about the nicknames of my village, Castelló d’Empúries. My objectives when I proposed to do the Project were five. The first one was to study the Onomastics, the science of names. Inside this section, to study the two branches; toponymy and antroponymy. Besides, to explain other aspects associated to the antroponymy like the etymology or stadistics.. Up to here,for my theoretical part. For my practical part, I wanted to do a search to find all the family’s nicknames. With the complete list I made a classification depending on the origin of the nicknames. The origin could be the family's job, the place where they live, any personal characteristic and others. The following objective was to analize  the most important and unusual names to know about Castello people's psychology. When I talk about psychology I allude to what are the aspects that these people use when assign the nicknames, if they pay more attention to the job or the place where they are…