Irony, Names and Linguistic Resistance: NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names as a World-Making Narrative

Names and Roles: A Narrative of Afvushteh Timurid Collection

In every period of history, construction owed much to the presence of people who have nurtured the intention of constructing the building and became the founder of its formation; those who have provided funding for construction and groups that have had various tasks in the implementation. Many architectural works are still standing, but there is seldom accurate information about the people who ...

Proper Names and Linguistic Dynamics

Pragmatics is the study of how people exchange meanings through the use of language. In this paper we describe our experience with regard to texts belonging to a large contemporary corpus of written language, in order to verify the uses, changes and flexibility of the meaning of Proper Names (PN). As a matter of fact, while building the lexical semantic database ItalWordNet (IWN), a considerabl...

We Look Like Our Names

Research demonstrates that facial appearance affects social perceptions. The current research investigates the reverse possibility: Can social perceptions influence facial appearance? We examine a social tag that is associated with us early in life—our given name. The hypothesis is that name stereotypes can be manifested in facial appearance, producing a face-name matching effect, whereby both ...

We need new names: Applying existing models of Information Quality to web archives

On the linguistic complexity of proper names