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Publication details [#53051]

Pang, Kam-yiu S. 2010. Eponymy and life-narratives: The effect of foregrounding on proper names. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (5) : 1321–1349.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
foregrounding | metonymy | narration | proper name | representational structure
Language as a subject
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses how life-narratives and their partitioned-representational nature allow for proper names' eponymic behaviors.