orthonym

The real name of a person who uses a pseudonym.

“Samuel Langhorne Clemens” is the orthonym of “Mark Twain”.

As such, the body of the collection is organic, housing a wide variety of heteronymic voices critically speaking to one another to enrich the overall complexity and yet unified wholeness of the orthonym that becomes the final product.

The correct word for a concept in a specified language.

This technique is illustrated by Example Two (Figure 6) where the non-native speaker (NNS) is searching for the orthonym, proposes a German word which is then translated by one of the native speakers (NS) of French.

To perform a series of pragmatic functions, to find the 'right word' (the orthonym) or to fill the gap of words s/he doesn't know, that are momentarily not accessible or that may not even exist in the matrix language, s/he will switch to the embedded language.