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

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

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PhilosophyLinguisticsGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 9401504520
ISBN13: 9789401504522
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 1 1968
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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. S rensen.- 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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