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Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie OccidentaleIn this paper, I shall deal with quasi-(proper) names, that is expressions like ‘Mum’, ‘Dad’, ‘Grandpa’, ‘Grandma’ in English or ‘Papà’, ‘Mamma’, ‘Nonna’, ‘Nonno’ in Italian. My aim is to describe their uses and to throw further light on the theory of
Capone, Alessandro
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Fictional Tellers: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics for Fictional Discourse [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 This essay proposes a dissolution of the so-called ‘semantic problem of fictional names’ by arguing that fictional names are only fictionally proper names.
Stefano Predelli
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NUME REALE ȘI NUME IMAGINARE DIN BASMUL ROMÂNESC. CONSIDERAȚII ASUPRA NUMELOR PROVENITE DIN SFERA APELATIVELOR VEGETALE / REAL AND IMAGINARY NAMES IN ROMANIAN FAIRY TALE. ON NAMES ORIGINATING FROM PLANT APPELLATION [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2023 The paper „Real and Imaginary names in the Romanian fantastic fairy tales. On names originating from plat appellation” proposes the exploration of the anthroponymy of the genre: on the one hand, from the perspective of the onomastic elements that belong ...
Cristina-Ileana Ilea (Rogojină)
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Proper names in cognitive onomastics: Meaning and categorization of proper names
Onomástica desde América Latina, 2023 This theoretical paper gives an overview about how proper names and different name types exist in the mental system, also showing new solutions provided by the cognitive perspective in connection with old questions of name theory.
Katalin Reszegi
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Deferred Reference of Proper Names [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2021 AbstractIn this paper, we argue that proper names have deferred uses. Following Geoffrey Nunberg, we describe the deferred reference mechanism by which a linguistic expression refers to something in the world by exploiting a contextually salient relation between an index and the referent in question. Nunberg offered a thorough analysis of deferred uses
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, Pawel Banás
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KOMPREHENSI PSIKOSOSIOSEMANTIK NAMA DIRI MAHASISWA IAIN SURAKARTA
Tarling, 2019 There is consideration by most parents in giving proper names for their children such as for expectation or praying. They use language varieties in supporting their expectations.
Irwan Rohardiyanto
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Incongruous Names: the Humorous Coinage and Use of Proper Names
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021 This paper analyses how proper names fit in the incongruity resolution theory of humor, more specifically Bergson (1911)’s theory of humor as rigidification (and related distraction and exaggeration).
Manon Philippe
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Revisiting Semantic Issues of Proper Names
Names, 2022 The semantic status of proper names in linguistics and language philosophy has been comprehensively studied. It has long been held that proper names are mainly used to refer to certain entities, not to describe them.
Nguyen Viet Khoa
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Language and Linguistics Compass, 2023 Abstract Linguistic research on proper names has mostly focused on their semantic and syntactic aspects, with relatively little attention being paid to their phonology. This article provides an exploratory overview of issues surrounding the sound patterns of proper names.
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The Cultural Component in the Semantic Structure of Monoreferential Proper Names: The Case of the German Language [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2015 The article deals with culturally relevant information that is represented by proper names commonly known in the German language community and with the place of this information in the semantic structure of monoreferential proper names. The author argues
Larisa M. Sapozhnikova
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