Lecture 2.2 Devices Based on the Interaction of Logical and Nominal Meanings. Devices Based on the Interaction of Logical and Emotive Meanings

Antonomasia.From Greek “naming instead”. This device isbased on the simultaneous realization of two lexical meanings, which normally do not overlap in speech. There are the following types of antonomasia singled out by scholars:

1. name of a famous personality for a characteristic feature

He is the Napoleon of crime

2. name of a place for the event which happened there

Pearl Harbor as a symbol of bitter defeat.

3. name of the establishment for the policy pursued by it

Wall Street, the White House, the Pentagon, Moscow

4. geographical names used as common nouns for the denotation of things originating from there

china, champagne, boston (fabric), astrakhan (каракуль), etc.

5. names after their inventors

ohm, diesel, sandwich, macintosh, etc.

Two other principal types of antonomasia are:

1. cases based on the interaction between the nominal and contextual logical meanings;

2. those based on the interaction of logical and contextual nominal meanings.

Number one can be illustrated by those proper nouns used as common ones (Othello, Don Juan). This type is highly trite as a result of long usage a proper noun has every reason to become totally common. The fact which prevents this process may be the use of the same noun in a piece of literature.

Derrick ishigh tower of an oil-producing device but it was name of an English hangman of Elizabethan times.

Class two may be illustrated by any common noun used as a proper one.

Mr. Mustard (“Abbey Road” by the Beatles), Rocky Raccoon, etc.

Sometimes antonomasia helps make abstract notions concrete.

You need the help of doctor Rest, doctor Diet and doctor Fresh Air.

Antonomasia may also consist of several words or a complete phrase.

Mr. Know-It-All (г-н Всезнайка)

Mr. What’s-Your-Name Как-Вас-Там?

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