Plan: What does lexical mean in stylistic devices? 2

с) Nominal Meaning
Words having nominal meanings are treated as proper nouns. In order to distinguish the word with a nominal meaning one must know that it is spelt by a capital letter. Such words as Longfellow, Black Sea, Smith have nominal meanings. The logical meaning from which the nominal meaning originated may in the course of time be forgotten.
Most proper names may be considered as homonyms of common nouns. For example: Miss Hope (hope), Mrs. Brown (brown), Miss Sweet (sweet), Browning (pistol).
It must be remembered that the nominal meaning will always be secondary to the logical meaning.
The process of development of meaning may go still further. A nominal meaning may assume a logical meaning due to certain circumstances. The result is that a logical meaning takes its origin in a nominal meaning. Some features of a person which have made him famous are re­cognized by the society and these features become the ba­sis for the new logical meaning. E.g.: hooligan - is pro­bably derived from the name of a rowdy family (the Irish name Houligan). The verb boycott was first used in 1880 to describe the action of the Land League towards Captain Boycott, an Irish landlord. The nominal meanings of these words have now faded away and we perceive only one, the logical meaning.

STYLISTIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

1. General Considerations
In order to get a clear idea of the vocabulary of any language, it must be presented as a system, the elements of which are interconnected, interrelated and yet indepen­dent.
In accordance with the division of language into lite­rary and colloquial, the vocabulary of the English langua­ge consists of three main layers: the literary layer, the neutral layer and the colloquial layer. Each of these layers has its own feature. The literary layer has a bookish character, the colloquial layer has a spoken character and the neutral layer is deprived of any colou­ring. It is of universal character: it is unrestricted in its use. It can be employed in all styles of language.
These three layers have their own classification. The literary layer has no local or dialectal character.
Within the literary layer we distinguish:

1. 
   Common literary words;
   
2. 
   Terms;
   
3. 
   Poetic words;
   
4. 
   Archaic words;
   
5. 
   Barbarisms and foreign words;
   
6. 
   Neologisms.
   

Within the colloquial vocabulary we distingu­ish:

1. 
   Common colloquial words;
   
2. 
   Slang;
   
3. 
   Jargonisms;
   
4. 
   Professional words;
   
5. 
   Dialectical words;
   
6. 
   Vulgar words.
   

The common literary, neutral and common colloquial words are grouped under the term Standard English Vocabulary. Other groups in the literary layer are re­garded as special literary vocabulary and those in col­loquial are regarded as special colloquial (non-literary) vocabulary