Samia Ounoughi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Samia Ounoughi plays a role.
Article
2023 Referential conventions as compromise: The case of oronyms Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 233–248 | Chapter
This chapter explores reference in the case of oronyms, that is, proper nouns which designate portions of mountainous relief. As a linguistic function, reference binds a linguistic sign to an extra-linguistic entity. How is this function initiated and how does it operate? I argue that oronyms… read more