Reference to Names

How do people talk about words? This work explores naming constructions such as This formation is called a “coral reef” that are used to introduce lexicalized concepts like coral reef through metalinguistic reference. Drawing on the theoretical foundations in philosophy of language as well as recent work in semantics and pragmatics, experimental evidence from corpus analyses and psycholinguistic experiments—including self-paced reading and eye-tracking data—uncover the linguistic and cognitive processes behind these naming constructions. Special attention is given to the use and processing of quotational constructions during reading. Bridging (psycho)linguistics and philosophy of language, this interdisciplinary work offers new insights into how people use quotational constructions to talk about language, and how readers interpret and process naming constructions with and without quotation marks.

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Acknowledgements
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1 Introduction
2 Approaches to defining quotation
3 Theoretical background
4 Quotation and reference to names
5 Characteristics of metalinguistic predicates
6 Empirical investigation I: Corpus-based construction analysis
7 Experimental investigation I: The interpretation of NMCs
8 Experimental investigation II: Evidence from eye-tracking
9 Conclusion

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Autor:inneninformation:
Dr. Natascha Raue ist PostDoc an der an der Universität Osnabrück und arbeitet in der Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft.