Evidence from aphasia for the role of proper names as pure referring expressions

Neurocase ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 235l-243
Author(s):  
C. Semenza
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Referring Expressions

Evidence from aphasia for the role of proper names as pure referring expressions

Nature ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 342 (6250) ◽  
pp. 678-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Semenza ◽  
Marina Zettin
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Referring Expressions

Smolensk Proper Names in A.T. Tvardovsky’s Poems

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Inna A. Koroleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Thematic Content ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Birthday Anniversary ◽  
Long Poems ◽  
First Time

This article is dedicated to the 110th birthday anniversary of a great Russian poet, native of Smolensk, one of the founders of the Smolensk Poetic School Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971). It examines how Smolensk motifs and Tvardovsky’s love for his home town are reflected in his works at the onomastic level. Smolensk-onyms reflected in long poems are analysed here, the focus being on anthroponyms and toponyms naming the characters and indicating the locations associated with Smolensk region. A close connection between the choice of proper names and Tvardovsky’s biography is established. An attempt is made to demonstrate how, using onomastic units introduced by the author into the storyline of his artistic text, the general principles of autobiography and chronotopy are realized, which have been noted earlier in critiques of Tvardovsky’s literary works. The onomastic component of the poems is analysed thoroughly and comprehensively, which helps us to decode the conceptual chain writer – name – text – reader and identify the author’s attitude to the characters and the ideological and thematic content of the works, as well as some of the author’s personal characteristics, tastes and passions. At the onomastic level, the thesis about the role of Smolensk motifs in Tvardovsky’s literary works is once more substantiated. A review is presented of onomastic studies analysing proper names of different categories in Tvardovsky’s poems (mainly conducted by the representatives of the Voronezh Onomastic School and the author of this article). It should be noted that Smolensk proper names in the entire body of Tvardovsky’s poetry are analysed for the first time.

Russian proper nouns derived from a Roman praenomen

Proglas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergana Petkova ◽  
◽  
Vanya Ivanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Proper Noun ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Catholic Tradition

The present paper examines Russian proper nouns of both masculine and feminine gender, which are derived from a Roman praenomen. Our main goal has been to present these proper names in their entirety, together with their etymology. The excerpted onyms are grouped according to the appellative or the anthroponym from which they are derived. Another classification, based on extralinguistic information about the canonization of proper names, is also included: it takes into account its origin, i.e. when a Russian anthroponym is derived from a saint’s name in the Orthodox or the Catholic tradition, or when it is recognized by and exists in the canons of both churches. A brief review of the proper-noun system in Ancient Rome – and the role of Roman praenomens in it – is also provided. Special attention has been paid to the etymology of the praenomens.

Do Proper Names Always Rigidly Designate?

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Nute
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Saul Kripke ◽  
Possible Worlds Semantics ◽  
Referring Expressions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Naming And Necessity

Many philosophers have claimed possible worlds semantics is incoherent because of insoluble problems involved in the notion of identifying a single individual in different worlds. One frequent approach to trans-world identification has been to assume that all the possible worlds, complete with their populations, are described by means of qualities alone prior to our considering the question of identification of the same individual in each world in which it exists. If we interpret possible worlds semantics in this way, trans-world identification could only be accomplished on the basis of some properties the individual has uniquely in every world in which it exists. This becomes problematic since the individual doesn't have the same properties in every world. In ‘Naming and Necessity’ and ‘Identity and Necessity’ Saul Kripke rejects such an account of both possible worlds and trans-world identification, developing an alternative interpretation of the new semantics. His approach involves a distinction between referring expressions which designate different individuals in different worlds according to the distribution of properties within each world and referring expressions which designate the same individual in every world.

scholarly journals ВОЛИНЬ У СИСТЕМІ ЕТНІЧНИХ АВТОСТЕРЕОТИПІВ ЕПІСТОЛЯРНИХ ТЕКСТІВ ЛЕСІ УКРАЇНКИ

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
СВІТЛАНА БОГДАН ◽  
ТЕТЯНА ТАРАСЮК
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Proper Names

The article explores the peculiarities of the functioning and linguistic actualization of the proper names represented in the system of Lesia Ukrainka’s epistolary ethnic autostereotypes. The study has revealed the determinative role of the horonym Volyn and its derivatives волинський , волинська, волинське (volynskyi, volynska, volynske) in the formation of the system and regular use of Volyn astionyms Lutsk, Kovel, comonym Kolodyazhne and katoikonyms volyniaky / volyniaki, volynianochka / volynianka. The article focuses on the comparative analysis of the usage contexts of the nuclear oykonymic names of Volyn and the horonyms of other geographical territories of Ukraine and foreign states, in particular, Germany, Bulgaria and Georgia. The authors argue for the importance of using these names as elements of personal self-identification and a means of linguistic self-portraiture.

Enemies, Parasites, and Noise

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kockelman
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Internet Service Providers ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Roman Jakobson

This chapter begins by outlining some common properties of channels, infrastructure, and institutions. It connects and critiques the assumptions and interventions of three influential intellectual traditions: cybernetics (via Claude Shannon), linguistics and anthropology (via Roman Jakobson), and actor-network theory (via Michel Serres). By developing the relation between Serres’s notion of the parasite and Peirce’s notion of thirdness, it theorizes the role of those creatures who live in and off infrastructure: not just enemies, parasites, and noise, but also pirates, trolls, and internet service providers. And by extending Jakobson’s account of duplex categories (shifters, proper names, meta-language, reported speech) from codes to channels, it theorizes four reflexive modes of circulation any network may involve: self-channeling channels, source-dependent channels, signer-directed signers, and channel-directed signers. The conclusion returns to the notion of enclosure, showing the ways that networks are simultaneously a condition for, and a target of, knowledge, power, and profit.

Topic-Continuity and Topic-Shift Effects in Spanish Discourse

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Iker Zulaica-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Direct Object ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Referring Expressions ◽  
Discourse Coherence ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
Topic Shift ◽  
Syntactic Prominence ◽  
Previous Sentence

Differences in use among referring expressions are usually explained on the basis of the cognitive accessibility of their antecedents, where antecedent accessibility has been operationalized differently in the literature; i.e. as a grammatical role, as syntactic prominence or as antecedent distance. On these grounds, it has been proposed that personal pronouns prefer topical antecedents whereas demonstratives prefer non-topical antecedents. This paper investigates the referring properties of Spanish demonstratives and direct object personal pronouns with the aim to unveil their differences and similarities. My analysis shows that these two expressions are very similar referentially when a narrow view of discourse context is considered. However, important differences show up when a broader notion of context is thrown into the picture; i.e. contexts that extend beyond the immediate previous sentence and beyond the immediate local topic of discourse. Based on my corpus evidence and on previous research on the pragmatic interpretation of referring expressions, I claim that direct object personal pronouns and demonstrative noun phrases crucially differ in the way they contribute to discourse coherence; the former playing the role of topic continuity markers and the latter focalising referents that reintroduce suspended or declining topics and marking (sub)-topic shifts in the discourse.

OF PROPER NAMES AS PART OF THE FORMULAS OF FOLK SPEECH ETIQUETTE

2020 ◽  
pp. 335-338
Author(s):  
Yu. Zorina
Keyword(s):  
Special Functions ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
Illustrative Material

The article is buit on the material of Russian dialectic formulas of good wishers used by residents of the Vologda villages. A rich illustrative material, correct interpretation of facts convince that the use of good vishes is one of the means of the realization of the politeness category and Northern village communication. Proper names used in the formulas of folk speech etiquette implement special functions - to update the precedent names known in society, as well as to emphasize the role of higher powers that patronize workers.

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