TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Henrot Sostero, Geneviève
TI  - Un/des Charlus du roman à la toile : passage à gué d’une antonomase
T2  - Neologica 2011, n° 5. Revue internationale de néologie
JO  - Neologica (ISSN 2262-0354), 5, 2011
DO  - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-4231-5.p.0161
SN  - 2262-0354
SP  - 161
EP  - 181
AB  - Modifying a proper name designating a person by adding an article can produce figures of speech in different contexts, including antonomasia. This leads the hearer/reader to decode the resulting noun phrase [det + NP] not as the rigid designator of a unique individual, but as an expression of one example taken from a group of individuals having some striking resemblance with the original. Charlus, the famous baron in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu inspired one of literature’s most recent cases of antonomasia, aiming at characterizing a particular type of homosexual. An analysis of Frantext and more broadly from the web shows that NP Charlus has indeed gained the status of antonomasia, to judge from the number of occurrences having this meaning, which appear not only in critical works published since the novel came out, but more recently, and more importantly, in a large number of blogs or discussion groups. Antonomasia thus appears to be the final stage in the process of lexicalisation, following repeated metaphoric, emphatic and exemplary instances of this usage.
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011/12/07
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
LA  - fre
UR  - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/neologica-2011-n-5-revue-internationale-de-neologie-un-des-charlus-du-roman-a-la-toile-passage-a-gue-d-une-antonomase-en.html
Y2  - 2025/12/06
ER  -