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<p>Up to now, proper names are mainly seen as linguistic signs with some special systemic features. This paper wants to show that there are other possibilities to approach the theory of names. They can be seen as symbols used in a speech act, which means that every utterance of a name represents a single speech act of namegiving, even with those names, which are already known by the partners of communication. A name is what is accepted as a name in a language community. This tautology is not just a word game, but situates a proper name in the system of speech acts at the moment of communication.</p>
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Up to now, proper names are mainly seen as linguistic signs with some special systemic features. This paper wants to show that there are other possibilities to approach the theory of names. They can be seen as symbols used in a speech act, which means that every utterance of a name represents a single speech act of namegiving, even with those names, which are already known by the partners of communication. A name is what is accepted as a name in a language community. This tautology is not just a word game, but situates a proper name in the system of speech acts at the moment of communication.

Speech acting with names. On a pragmatic foundation of the theory of proper names

Institut für Germanistik, Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Wien

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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Up to now, proper names are mainly seen as linguistic signs with some special systemic features. This paper wants to show that there are other possibilities to...

Speech acting with names. On a pragmatic foundation of the theory of proper names

Published Online: Sep 27, 2021

Page range: 37 - 46

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0012

Keywords
pragmatics, name definition, name usage, speech act, theory of names, namegiving

© 2021 Peter Ernst, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Speech acting with names. On a pragmatic foundation of the theory of proper names

Published Online: Sep 27, 2021

Page range: 37 - 46

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0012

Keywordspragmatics, name definition, name usage, speech act, theory of names, namegiving

© 2021 Peter Ernst, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
pragmatics, name definition, name usage, speech act, theory of names, namegiving