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The article discusses the ways and mechanisms of inscribing selected proper names into the advertising con(text) and attempts at disintegrating the components of onyms. It shows the use of their connotational and associational value, as well as their contextual associational potential. The description of those phenomena enables one to formulate conclusions about the function and functional shifts of onyms, as well as about the shaping of a postmodern system of values by means of the same.