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Fictional Reports A Study on the Semantics of Fictional Names
Theoria, 2010 Against standard descriptivist and referentialist semantics for fictional reports, I will defend a view according to which fictional names do not refer yet they can be distinguished from one another by virtue of their different name-using practices. The
Fiora Salis
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Fictional Names without Fictional Objects
Crítica, 2008 In this paper, I criticize Mark Sainsbury’s proposal concerning the semantic analysis of fictional discourse, as it has been put forward in chapter 6 of his Reference without Referents.
Eleonora Orlando
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Fictional Characters and Their Names
Studia Semiotyczne, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvi1.02 Fictional characters do not really exist. Names of fictional characters refer to fictional characters. We should divorce the idea of reference from that of existence (the picture of the name as a tag has ...
Hanoch Ben-Yami
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Proper Names as Demonstratives in Fiction
Studia Semiotyczne, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvi1.05 In this article, I argue for two theses. The first is that, among different existing accounts of proper name semantics, indexicalism—a stance that treats proper names as indexical expressions—is best suited
Maciej Tarnowski
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Unravelling Names of Fictional Characters [PDF]
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2016 In this paper we explore the correlation between the sound of words and their meaning, by testing if the polarity (‘good guy’ or ‘bad guy’) of a character’s role in a work of fiction can be predicted by the name of the character in the absence of any other context. Our approach is based on phonological and other features pro- posed in prior theoretical
Katerina Papantoniou +1 more
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Mental Files and the Theory of Fiction: A Reply to Zoltán Vecsey
ESPES, 2021 In this work I reply to Zoltán Vecsey’s criticisms of the semantic account of fictional names I put forward in Orlando (2017). The main tenet of that proposal is that fictional names refer to individual concepts, which I understand in terms of mental ...
Eleonora Orlando
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Name-giving motives in Lithuania and Brazil
Domínios de Lingu@gem, 2021 TThis research aims at analysing and comparing the motives for choosing the first name of a child in Lithuania and Brazil in the years 1958-2016. By combining qualitative and quantitative methods and applying social and cultural approaches, it reveals ...
Karolina Butkuvienė +3 more
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Co‐Identification and Fictional Names [PDF]
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2018 Stacie Friend raises a problem of “co‐identification” involving fictional names such as ‘Hamlet’ or ‘Odysseus’: how to explain judgments that different uses of these names are “about the same object”, on the assumption of irrealism about fictional characters on which such expressions do not refer.
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The Role of Anthroponymic Commemoration on Wine Labels in South Africa
Names, 2017 South Africa is a prominent wine-producing country. The focus in this contribution will be on anthroponymic commemoration whereby a name of a person, singular or plural, and of both genders, is selected for a particular wine in South Africa.
Bertie Neethling
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Sociological Science, 2020 Social scientists often describe fictional people in survey stimuli using first names. However, which name a researcher chooses may elicit nonrandom impressions, which could confound results.
Sasha Shen Johfre
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