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What is in a Name? An Inquiry into the Semantics and Pragmatics of Proper Names

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zabeeh, Farhang
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1968, 1968
Edition:	1st ed. 1968
Subjects:	Linguistic Anthropology Philosophy Of Man Philosophy Natural Language Processing (nlp) Natural Language Processing (computer Science)
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1094-3?nosfx=y
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