What is in a Name?

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.