Descriptivism Without Quotation
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DOI: 10.1007/s11245-018-9555-3
Abstract: Current descriptivist accounts of proper names entail two claims: (i) that the expressions we know as different proper names are the bearers of different meanings and (ii) that the descriptions corresponding to these meanings contain… read more here.
Keywords: descriptivism; proper names; descriptivism without; without quotation ... See more keywords
Misha or Mihailik: A Sociolinguistic View on the Ukrainization of Russian Proper Names in Modern Ukraine
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DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2018.1452910
Abstract: This article focuses on linguistic identity and ideology through analysis of the attitudes of Russian-speaking Ukrainians toward the Ukrainization of traditionally Russian proper names (personal names and toponyms). It summarizes the results of a survey… read more here.
Keywords: misha mihailik; russian proper; mihailik sociolinguistic; proper names ... See more keywords
Do the Gödel Vignettes Involve a New Descriptivist Meaning? A Critical Discussion of Devitt and Porot's Elicited Production Test on Proper Names
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70030
Abstract: Proper names-expressions such as "Barack Obama" or "New York"-play a crucial role in the philosophical debate on reference, that is, the relation that allows words to stand for entities of the world. In an elicited… read more here.
Keywords: proper names; devitt; theory; devitt porot ... See more keywords
Proper names as counterpartâtheoretic individual concepts
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DOI: 10.1111/phpr.70005
Abstract: Many philosophers and linguists have been attracted to counterpart theory as a framework for natural language semantics. I raise a novel problem for counterpart theory involving simple declarative sentences with proper names. To resolve this… read more here.
Keywords: semantics; theoretic individual; names counterpart; proper names ... See more keywords
Proper names as speech acts
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DOI: 10.1515/ip-2024-5003
Abstract: Abstract In this paper, I question the idea that proper names are merely used to refer to things or individuals. However, I am not going to use predicativism to prove this point. I will somehow… read more here.
Keywords: name; proper names; language; act ... See more keywords
Navigating Linguistic Similarities Among Countries Using Fuzzy Sets of Proper Names
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DOI: 10.5195/names.2023.2569
Abstract: This paper examines the commonalities among several countries and languages through the lens of proper names, especially forenames. It posits that the investigation of these names offers a fresh perspective on language similarity due to… read more here.
Keywords: proper names; linguistic similarities; language; navigating linguistic ... See more keywords