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Fictional Tellers: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics for Fictional Discourse [PDF]
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]
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
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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KOMPREHENSI PSIKOSOSIOSEMANTIK NAMA DIRI MAHASISWA IAIN SURAKARTA
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
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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The Cultural Component in the Semantic Structure of Monoreferential Proper Names: The Case of the German Language [PDF]
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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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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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]
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
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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