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Names In Harry Potter

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The universe of names as objects of research does not have limits. The interest in names can be linguistic or philosophical, theoretical or practical, legal or political, ethnographic or religious; however, an analysis of characters’ names in Harry Potter from all these perspectives would be practically impossible. In order to narrow down the scope of this research, the data collected, that is, some characters’ names, will be described from the point of view of etymology – the study of the origin and history of words and their meanings (Pinker, 1999:24); semantics –the study of meanings as expressed through language (ibid.). Another perspective from which names can be analyzed is metaphorical level will be to explore how, names meaning is different
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