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, 2006 A history of the notion of PROPERHOOD in philosophy and linguistics is given. Two long-standing ideas, (i) that proper names have no sense, and (ii) that they are expressions whose purpose is to refer to individuals, cannot be made to work ...
Coates, Richard
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THE TRANSITION OF NAMES: FROM PROPER NAMES TO COMMON NOUNS [PDF]
Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2018 The paper deals with proper names’ trend to be transformed into common nouns in both Bulgarian and English-language media texts. It traces the mechanisms leading to this transformation- using names in plural form, presence of a definite article, lack of ...
Aleksandra Aleksandrova
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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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Proper names between logos and praxis
Domínios de Lingu@gem, 2021 The editors’ target is much more than introducing the papers of this thematic issue to the reader. It can be considered a space devoted to discussing the Onomastics studies in Brazil, its status, and interdisciplinarity.
Patricia Carvalhinhos +1 more
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Kétnyelvűség és névszemiotikai tájkép [PDF]
, 2015 The paper examines the connections between bilingualism and the name-semiotic landscape, focusing especially on the name-semiotic landscape of Slovakian settlements populated by Hungarian minorities as well as on name laws affecting the visual use of ...
Bauko, János
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Acquisition of Czech Language and Sphere of Proper Names of Language [PDF]
, 2014 The author analyzes two textbooks prepared for teaching Czech as a foreign language (A1 level) for the use of proper names for glottodidactic purposes.
Balowski, Mieczysław
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On the Im/Propriety of Brand Names
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2015 This paper asks what kind of modifications we might have to make to our conventional understandings of proper names to accommodate the im/propriety of brand names. On the basis of ethnographic research on a naming crisis at a Mumbai advertising agency, I
William Mazzarella
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On intuitions about proper names [PDF]
, 2005 Machery et al (2004) carried out an experiment which tests the intuition of US and Chinese students about the use of proper names. They arrived at the conclusion that the way most respondents used proper names is not compatible with the causal ...
Pethő, Gergely
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Metaphor, metonymy and the nounness of proper names
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022 Proper names are generally considered as a specific category of nouns. Research may focus on their specificities, but also, in the opposite perspective, on what they share with common nouns.
Pierre J.L. Arnaud
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Nativization of foreign names in TTS for automatic reading of world news in Swahili [PDF]
, 2017 When a text-To-speech (TTS) system is required to speak world news, a large fraction of the words to be spoken will be proper names originating in a wide variety of languages.
King, Simon +3 more
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