ANTONOMASIA and CONVERSION
A. Antonomasia
Antonomasia
is a figure of speech in which some defining word or phrase is substituted for
a person’s proper name. Antonomasia can range from lighthearted nicknames to
epic names. Uses for antonomasia vary slightly depending on the time period. In
the past, antonomasia would be used to designate class members, as oftentimes
people’s names were linked to their professions. Antonomasia was also used in
the past to give positive names to strong warriors and negative names to weak
or nasty people. Jadi, antonomasia merupakan majas yang digunakan untuk menyatakan
seseorang sesuai dengan keadaan khas yang ia miliki. Here are some popular
examples:
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Tarzan - wild
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Solomon - a wise man
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Casanova - a philanderer
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The Bard of Avon - William Shakespeare
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Beowulf - a myth
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The Dark Knight - Batman
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The Führer - Adolf Hitler
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Judas - Betrayer
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The Philosopher - Aristotle
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The Iron Duke - Duke of Wellington
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Schwarzenegger - Arnie, the Austrian Oak,
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The Governator - tough
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Cicero - orator
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Gandhi - non-violence
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La Divina - Maria Callas
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Silicon Valley - where all the geeks go,
high-tech hub
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Beckham - footballer
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The Iron Lady - Margaret Thatcher
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The King of Pop - Michael Jackson
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An Einstein - an intelligent person
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The Little Corporal - Napoleon I
Antonomasia
is also known as nominatio, pronominatio and prosonomasia and is at times spelt
as 'antinomasia'. The word 'antonomasia' comes from the Greek word
'antonomazein', which means to 'name differently' or 'instead of'. Antonomasia
is all about substitution of names for a person with a praiseworthy appellation
like brave, coward, furious, clever, and casanova and so on.
B. Conversion
Conversion is the process in which a
word of one grammatical form becomes a word of another grammatical form without
any changes to spelling or pronunciation. Conversion is also referred to as
zero derivation or null derivation with the assumption that the formal change
between words results in the addition of an invisible morpheme. However, linguistics
argue for a clear distinction between the word formation processes of
derivation and conversion. Here are
some examples:
1.
Noun to verb
conversion
·
access – to access
·
bottle – to bottle
·
can – to can
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closet – to closet
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email – to email
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eye – to eye
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fiddle – to fiddle
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fool – to fool
2. Verb to noun conversion
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to
alert – alert
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to attack – attack
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to call – call
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to
clone – clone
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to
command – command
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to
cover – cover
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to cry – cry
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to
experience – experience
·
to
fear – fear
·
to
feel – feel
So, we know
that Conversion involves the change of a word from one word class to another.
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