 Again, however, some work has pushed back against these old objections. Michael Johnson (forthcoming) points to some names which bear special relationships to their referents. In particular, he points to onomatopoeia. For example, ‘buzz’ refers to a sound, a buzzing sound. But the word ‘buzz’, when uttered, makes the sound it refers to. Roughly speaking, Johnson holds that we could view quotations in the same way: as he says, ‘the name of a person sounds like the name of his name’ (forthcoming).