This article presents an account of the ethnopragmatic functions of personal names in two
onomastic traditions in North-central Nigeria: Owé (Kogi State) and Tiv (Benue State). The …

Corazón tan blanco (1992), una muy conocida obra de Javier Marías, ha dado lugar a
numerosos estudios. Sin embargo, ninguno de ellos se ha interesado en interpretar …

Corpus linguistics is advancing rapidly in the study of a wide variety of genres, but is still at
its infancy in the study of TV series, a genre daily consumed by millions of viewers. Murder …

Although television crime fiction is one of the most proliferating genres nowadays, many of
its features are still understudied. Most research on fictional drama has focused on the …

Khazar University Faculty: Graduate School of Science, Arts and Technology Department:
Department of English Language and Litera Page 1 Khazar University Faculty: Graduate School …

In this article, I argue for two theses. The first is that, among different existing accounts of
proper name semantics, indexicalism—a stance that treats proper names as indexical …

The paper considers the hypothesis that proper names are simple demonstratives. In the first
part, I provide the general motivation for an indexical treatment of proper names as well as …

A Heart so White (1992), an internationally acclaimed novel written by Javier Marias has
given rise to numerous studies, but none of them has described in detail the pragmatic …