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<roleName>

role name

contains a name component which indicates that the referent has a particular role or position in society, such as an official title or rank.

Module namesdatesNDPER

Attributes

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

header

textcrit

textstructure

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

linking

spoken

tagdocs

Note

A roleName may be distinguished from an addName by virtue of the fact that, like a title, it typically exists independently of its holder.

Examples

<persName>
  <forename>William</forename>
  <surname>Poulteny</surname>
  <roleName>Earl of Bath</roleName>
</persName>
<p>The <roleName role="solicitor_general">S.G.</roleName> is the only national public official,
including the Supreme Court justices, required by statute to be “learned in the law.”</p>
<p>
  <persName ref="#NJF">
    <roleName role="solicitor_general">Solicitor General</roleName> Noel J. Francisco</persName>,
representing the administration, asserted in rebuttal that there was nothing to disavow (...)<persName ref="#NJF">Francisco</persName> had violated the scrupulous standard of candor about the facts and
the law that<roleName role="solicitor_general">S.G.s</roleName>, in Republican and Democratic administrations
alike, have repeatedly said they must honor.</p>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq"/>
  </content>