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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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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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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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Aldredian glosses to proper names in the Lindisfarne Gospels
, 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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Translating Proper Names: a Functionalist Approach
Names, 2007 Proper names create special problems for translators. A typology of proper names is presented and their use in aesthetic-expressive and informative texts is discussed.
Anastasia Parianou
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