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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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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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Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2018 The presented paper argues the importance of proper names in fantasy and science fiction in general but focuses primarily on the highly successful Star Wars franchise.
Adam Nowakowski
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Aldredian glosses to proper names in the Lindisfarne Gospels [PDF]
, 2001 This article explores the multiple ways in which Aldred, the glossator of the Lindisfarne Gospels, rendered proper names, both place-names and personal names. It shows that there is no support in the corpus to maintain that Aldred left most of the proper
Pons-Sanz, Sara, Pons-Sanz, S.M.
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Names proper and improper in Richard Millet's Siom novels [PDF]
, 2012 Since 1983 Richard Millet has published a considerable volume of fictional and critical writings, including short stories, récits, and twelve novels.
Jackson, A.
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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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Natural language variables: variable-based semantic theories of pronouns and proper names [PDF]
, 2012 Semanticists, philosophers and logicians have standardly analyzed a range of natural language expressions on the model of the variables of formal languages. This dissertation explores variable- based semantic theories of pronounsand proper names.
Przyjemski, Katrina
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Cortex, 1992 Following a left thalamic infarct, a patient showed a marked impairment in retrieving person proper names in response to faces and to verbal description, despite being able to provide precise information about the persons he could not name and to point to their photograph when the name was provided by the examiner.
F, Lucchelli, E, De Renzi
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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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