Nom propre et dénomination évènementielle : quelles différences en langue et en discours ?

• Main Author: Laura Calabrese-Steimberg
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2009-06-01
• Series: Corela
• Subjects: proper name; event names; discursive semantics; lexical semantics
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/corela/173

In this paper we approach the question of event names in the media, which have the capacity of stocking information about those events thanks to discursive memory. The kind of bond linking the name and the event allows us to consider those expressions as proper nouns, taking into account the direct and permanent reference they establish. But name events seem to have different stocking capacities, depending on whether they are toponymes, dates or definite expressions. As some of them can be easily considered proper names (Tiananmen, 9-11), others work as proper names only during the midterm of news coverage (Mexican flu), due to their weak stocking capacity. Following those remarks, we propose that it is important to start with a grammar description of those expressions, to explore afterwards their relation to memory.