A third possibility refers the name to an
appellative, which is less likely, but not impossible; for variants see Kallasmaa (1996 : 456).
Or was El only used in the OT as an
appellative to refer to the class of deities?
Further, the Hellenistic usage of gad as a generic
appellative equivalent to tyche is clearly a late historical development.
It is not by chance that Baudelaire uses the comprehensive
appellative of peintre referring to the artistic singularity; indeed, as the emergence of Impressionism may suggest, painting seemed the quicker art form to perceive and reflect modern acceleration.
"Direct address implies direct involvement, while reference, even when it fulfills an
appellative function, creates greater distance and hence reduces the potential threat to the addressee's face.
The killer monkey, however, is called "man of the woods," an
appellative that follows the way in which orangutans were named in popular natural history books of the time (Irmscher 1999:206), but also reminds one of Audubon's self-fashioning as a "woodsman" (Audubon 1831-1949: vol.1 p.v): arguably, this disallows easy identifications and self-identifications and also represents a (perhaps unconscious) admission that, later in life, the little child crying inconsolably for the dead parrot actually turned into a birds' killer, a change of role which, as we will see, Audubon did ultimately embrace but not entirely without deep anxieties.
(The 2016 race may feature two candidates who share names with praiseworthy pop-music figures: Webb, whose distant cousin Jimmy Webb wrote the achingly beautiful antiwar song "Galveston," among other hits, and Scott Walker, the public-union-busting Wisconsin governor whose
appellative double is the teen idol turned eccentric minimalist who sang the lush masterpiece "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore", only to walk away into his own world of night music.)
His initial
appellative tag, 'Honorable frendys', and use of the verb 'beseech', following the articulation of prayer in the first stanza, echo the opening address a preacher would employ in a sermon.
The name of the street itself became
appellative and ever since used to define pedestrian areas in different Russian cities.
While guaranteed to draw attention from scholars, students and casual enthusiasts alike, few realise that this name is entirely posthumous; 'El Greco' as an autonomous
appellative was never used during the artist's lifetime.
Periphrastic antonomasias are used for the Minister of Tourism in connection to her spouse's business ("the blonde from Golden Blitz"), to her immoral behavior ("the maiden from Plescoi"; the
appellative bears the antiphrastic stamp), (revistaflacara.ro, March 3, 2009) A deputy is labeled "the black tulip of Ferentari" (adevarul.ro, December 14, 2008) referring to the fact that the politician does welfare work in a disfavored zone of Bucharest.
In this context, microencapsulation becomes the most
appellative industrial process for the production of controlled release agricultural formulations [15, 16].
