Frank Nuessel

Biographic Data

ID687828
NAMEFrank Nuessel
GIVEN NAMESFrank
FAMILY NAMENuessel
SIGNATURENUESSEL F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Louisville
ORCID0009-0005-5402-9348
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS126
TOTAL CITATIONS285
AUTHOR COUNT126
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX7

  • Word and Image in Alfonso d'Aragona's Manuscript Edition of the Divina Commedia

    Frank NuesselARTICLEItalica2023

    In his introduction, Marco Lettieri, assistant professor of Italian, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, emphasizes that most of the previous illuminated manuscript scholarship of Dante's Divine Comedy involves authorship of the illustrations and the historical background of the creation of the manuscript. While very valuable, these studies fail to explain the interaction of the words and images on the reader/viewer. Since 1941, the original …

  • Semiotics 2021

    Open AccessFrank Nuessel, Ott PuumeisterARTICLESign Systems Studies2022Cited by: 2References: 19

    Semiotics 2021: The year in review

  • Sémiotique 2021

    Open AccessFrank Nuessel, Ott Puumeister et al.ARTICLESemiotica2022Cited by: 1References: 75

  • Semiotics of the Christian Imagination. Signs of the Fall and Redemption

    Frank NuesselARTICLEItalica2021

  • Lingue e linguaggi d'Italia in Canada

    Frank NuesselARTICLEItalica2021

  • Diccionario de locuciones idiomáticas del español actual (DiLEA) by Inmaculada Penadés Martínez

    Frank NuesselARTICLEHispania2020

    Reviewed by: Diccionario de locuciones idiomáticas del español actual (DiLEA) by Inmaculada Penadés Martínez Frank Nuessel Penadés Martínez, Inmaculada. Diccionario de locuciones idiomáticas del español actual (DiLEA). 2019. diccionariovariantesespanol.org/ Inmaculada Penadés Martínez es autora o coautora de diecinueve libros sobre la gramática del español, varias clases de locuciones en español, la lingüística, la paremiología, una bibliografía …

  • Award for Best Article in Names

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2019

    At its annual meeting in San Francisco 8–11 January 2009, the American Name Society agreed to provide an annual award for the best article in Names: A Journal of Onomastics. This award is now in it

  • Sensory representation in literature

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLESemiotica2018References: 3

    The five senses (vision, audition, touch, olfaction, gustation) constitute the essence of our ability to interact with the external world and make sense of it. This contact is transmitted through various sensory organs and the information for each sense is transmitted to and translated in various parts of the brain. The anatomical and physiological aspects of this external-internal interface are complex. Likewise, the philosophical approaches to …

  • A Note on Selected Craft Beer Brand Names

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2018Cited by: 3References: 3

    This note addresses selectively the names of craft beers produced by U.S. microbreweries. It considers the following points: (1) a brief history of beer, (2) the rise of the microbrewery in the U.S., (3) a definition of microbrewery, (4) a brief discussion of beer and craft beer in popular culture (film, television, collecting beer paraphernalia), and (5) a selected list of craft beer brand names to illustrate their referents

  • Award for Best Article in Names

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2018

  • The Spanish and Portuguese Curriculum

    Frank NuesselARTICLEHispania2018

    The Spanish and Portuguese Curriculum:Transition, Expansion, and (R)evolution Frank Nuessel Hispania Editor-in-Chief Sheri Spaine Long (2010–18) ably continues the tradition of excellence and quality established by a small but distinguished group of former editors of Hispania during the first century of the journal's existence: Aurelio M. Espinosa (1918–26), Alfred Coester (1927–41), Henry Grattan Doyle (1942–48), Donald D. Walsh (1949–56), Rober…

  • Portal de la lingüística hispánica/Hispanic Linguistics by Javier Muñoz-Basols

    Frank NuesselARTICLEHispania2018

    Reviewed by: Portal de la lingüística hispánica/Hispanic Linguistics by Javier Muñoz-Basols Frank Nuessel Muñoz-Basols, Javier, dir. Portal de la lingüística hispánica/Hispanic Linguistics. 2017 En línea: hispaniclinguistics.com/. The author, a senior academic at the University of Oxford (UK) and current President of ASELE (Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera), points out on the home page of this web site that this onl…

  • Celebrating 100 Years of Hispania

    Frank NuesselARTICLEHispania2018

    Celebrating 100 Years of Hispania:Overview and Response Frank Nuessel Introduction The people involved in the organization of the Modern Language Association session in New York City on January 6, 2018 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Hispania have various roles in the creation, development, and production of the centenary issue on Visionary Essays: The Future of Spanish and Portuguese (Hispania 2017) and its commemoration. Sheri Spaine Long…

  • Addendum to A Note on the 25 Most Frequent Surnames from the 2000 United States Census Bureau List

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2017References: 1

    This addendum to Nuessel discusses very recently released results on surname frequency in the US provided by the US Census Bureau. That bureau said that it would no longer prepare an updated list of the 1,000 most frequent surnames in the US because of limited resources. In late 2016, the US Census Bureau released these data from the 2010 census. This note provides information based on that unanticipated release

  • A Note on Selected Names of Colorado Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2017Cited by: 2References: 2

    This article offers information about the names of marijuana dispensaries in Colorado. First, it provides a brief overview of popular cultural references to the drug in film and music. Second, it considers its medical uses. Third, it examines legal issues related to its sale and use. Fourth, it reviews briefly the slang terminology for marijuana. Fifth, it discusses the notion of “dispensary.” Sixth, it utilizes an existing database of 424 names …

  • The consequences and effects of language transformations in legal discourse

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLESemiotica2016References: 3

    The discursive use of language in legal contexts is multifaceted and complex. First, it begins with the chain of oral narrative structures (victim, witness, suspect accounts) and written texts (confessions, notes, depositions, letters, Internet documents, email, tweets, telephone records) used in a court of law. The transcription of oral communiqués is a potentially transformative phase of evidence production that may be flawed (ambiguity, error,…

  • Award for Best Article in Names

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2016References: 4

    At its annual meeting in San Francisco on

  • A Note on Selected Brand Names of E-Cigarettes

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2016References: 4

    This brief note has a fourfold purpose: (1) to define the concept of “e-cigarette”; (2) to discuss succinctly collateral aspects of e-cigarettes (product development, health and legal features, linguistic dimensions); (3) to explain the notion of brand name; and (4) to review selectively brand names for e-cigarettes in order to determine the marketing strategies employed. Finally, there is an appendix with a corpus of the selected e-cigarette bra…

  • A Note on Popular Baby Names on the Social Security Website

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2016Cited by: 2

    This note provides a road map for the use of the Social Security “Popular Baby Names” website. It gives information on how to navigate the site and utilize all of its features for research, decision making in the selection of a baby’s name, personal information, and many other possibilities

  • The Top 20 Baby Names for 2014 in the US

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2016

    References US Office of Social Security. 2015. “Top 20 Baby Names for 2014.” (Accessed August 30, 2015)

  • A Note on the 25 Most Frequent Surnames from the 2000 United States Census Bureau List

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2016Cited by: 1References: 1

    This note uses the United States Census Bureau database of the 1,000 most frequent surnames from the US census of 2000. It discusses briefly the meaning and origin of the notion of surname. It provides a table of the 25 most frequent surnames in the US from the 2000 census data, including number of people with the surname, and its meaning. This article provides the reader with three useful onomastic research tools for surnames: (1) The US Census …

  • The Top 20 Baby Names for 2015 in the US

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2016

    References Social Security Administration. 2016. “Top 20 Baby Names for 2015,” (Accessed May 8, 2016)

  • Award for Best Article in Names

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2016

  • In Memoriam

    Frank NuesselARTICLEHispania2016

    In Memoriam:Janet Pérez and the AATSP Frank Nuessel The entire membership (more than 10,000) of the AATSP mourns the loss of Dr. Janet Pérez, Professor Emerita of Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas) where she held several distinguished appointments including the Paul Whitfield Horn (first president of Texas Technological College) Professor of Romance Languages, the Qualia (named for Dr. Charles B. Qualia) Chair of Spanish in the Department of …

  • A Note on the Names for Winter Storms

    Open AccessFrank NuesselARTICLENames2015Cited by: 1References: 2

    This note reviews briefly the history of naming tropical storms. It then discusses the very recent and sometimes controversial phenomenon of naming winter storms. Finally, a list of the most recent designations for winter storms is provided