What is in a Name? An Inquiry into the Semantics and Pragmatics of Proper Names
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1968, 1968
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Edition: | 1st ed. 1968 |
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. Preliminaries
- II. Theories of Logicians
- 1. Mill
- 2. Frege
- 3. Russell
- 4. Some More Recent Talk on Proper Names
- III. Theories of Linguists
- 1. Gardiner
- 2. Sørensen
- 3. Syntactic Regularities: Jespersen, Chomsky, Gardiner
- IV. A Constructive Move
- 1. On Dictionary Definition
- 2. The Pragmatic Dimension
- 3. The Need for Identification
- 4. Referring Expressions
- 5. Proper Names and Definite Descriptions
- 6. Identifying — Referring and Distinguishing
- 7. The Referent
- 8. Overlapping Categories
- 9. A Use — Mention Confusion
- 10. Transformation to Common Names
- 11. The Protean Use of Proper Names
- 12. Same Person — Same Name
- 13. Name-Givers
- 14. Why Name?
- 15. Conventions
- 16. Problems of Translation
- V. Conclusion