37.544, Books: Reference to Names: Raue (2026)

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Date: 05-Feb-2026
From: Maren Köpp [koepp at narr.de]
Subject: Reference to Names: Raue (2026)


Title: Reference to Names
Subtitle: An empirically based study on metalinguistic uses of names
of lexicalized concepts
Series Title: Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik (TBL)
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
           http://www.narr.de/
Book URL: https://www.narr.de/reference-to-names-1464-1/

Author(s): Natascha Raue

Softcover (ISBN 978-3-381-14641-3)
eBook (open Access: https://doi.org/10.24053/9783381146420 )

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics

Written In: English (eng)



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