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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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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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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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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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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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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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Exploring How Japanese Second Language English Readers Respond to Proper Names
Onomástica desde América Latina, 2022 An assumption in second language (L2) vocabulary and reading research is that L2 readers can easily understand the proper names they encounter, though empirical support for this conjecture is lacking.
Kimberly Klassen
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Ukrainian and Belorussian Masculine Proper Names, Derived from Roman Mythological Names
Limbaj si Context, 2014 The research object of the present text refers to the Ukrainian and the Belorussian masculine proper names (and their variants) derived from the Roman mythological names. The aim is to present their full list and their initial meaning as well.
Gergana Petkova
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Translate or transliterate? When metonymic names are more than proper names
Translation and Interpreting : the International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research, 2022 This paper investigates problems surrounding translating and/or transliterating, examines a case study, and discusses how a poet/lover uses different appellations to purposefully address his beloved, which include the beloved’s actual name and three ...
Raja Lahiani
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