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

Zabeeh, Farhang

 
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Synopsis

I. Preliminaries.- II. Theories of Logicians.- 1. Mill.- 2. Frege.- 3. Russell.- 4. Some More Recent Talk on Proper Names.- (i) Ziff.- (ii) Strawson.- (iii) Ayer.- (iv) Searle.- (v) Shawyder.- (vi) Kneale.- 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.

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ISBN 10 :  9401510954 ISBN 13 :  9789401510950
Editeur : Springer, 2012
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