Abstract
Nomination consists of attributing a linguistic unit to a being with an ostensive aim (to designate it), discriminatory (to distinguish it from other entities) and identificatory (to make it exist in its particular idiosyncrasy). As Sarah Leroy and Paul Siblot say, the nomination "s “a speech act in which the speaker expresses"a “point of view” on the being named, and by which he at the same time takes a position towards other speakers, while he enters into a dialogic relationship. Proper names, like the circumlocutions used to designate the young heroines of the tales of “Peau d'd'Asne" and “Allerleirauh”, "take on a “meaning" in the discursive and argumentative enterprise of the two eponymous tales, a meaning which is constructed discursively and contextually against the danger of incest and paternal desire, from which young girls absolutely must be protected. The eponymous characters of the tales studied are both designated by their clothing in a metonymic mode – the skin or animal skins – the naming process of which is constructed in each story by the narrative and discursive process.