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CONTRASTIVE STYLISTICS OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN

EXTRACTS FOR STYLISTIC ANALYSIS

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O’Henry. The Gift of the Magi.

1. In a vestibule below was an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Metaphor: could coax a ring; Hyperbole electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.

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3. …………………………

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O’Henry. The Cop and the Anthem.

10. Strong and ready hands turned him about and conveyed him in silence and haste to the sidewalk and averted the ignoble fate of the menaced mallard. Metonymy Strong and ready hands turned him about.

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12. …………………..

Л. Костенко. Поезії

16. Півні кричать у мегафони мальв –

Аж деренчить полив’яний світанок. Метафора: Півні кричать у мегафони мальв; мегафони мальв; деренчить полив’яний світанок. Епітет: полив’яний світанок.

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6. Course description

Lecture No 1

General notes on style and stylistics

1.Stylistics as a brunch of linguistics, its object, subject matter and main tasks of investigations

1.2. General or theoretical stylistics

1.3. Stylistics of language

1.4.Stylistics of speech

1.5.Literary stylistics

1.6.Functional stylistics

1.7.Contrastive stylistics

2. The main categories of stylistics

2.1.The notion of style

2.2.The notion of norm

2.3. The notion of image

2.4. The notion of stylistic function

2.5. The notion of connotation and denotation

2.6. The notion of context

3. Expressive means and stylistic devices

4. Methods of stylistic analysis

Practical tasks

1. Define the type of the context in the following examples. How does it influence the underlined lexical units? Describe the effect produced:

   1. Once upon a time ago , about last Friday, Winnie the Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders. What does “under the name mean?” asked Christopher Robin. “It means he has the name over the door in gold letters and lived under it”.(A Miln)

   2. Не розклад – а одні вікна…

   3. Страх, як гарно; Подумаєш!; Дивись мені! To take offence; to have a good time;

   4. Люди тут бормочуть, язиком дивним до нас сокочуть, і ми їх мови не втнемо(І. Котляревський)

2. Identify the lexical units (words or/and phrases ) that perform a definite stylistic function in the following texts. Define this stylistic function and speak of any semantic changes these lexical units undergo:

a) If you want to be a great man and leave two thousand pounds a year and a nice clean wife… and a kid with real eyes that open and close, you’ll have to work in your dinner time…

Get some cash in the bank and then you can go in for art and be as bad as you like you’ll still be happy… and you’ll be able to afford a nice little wife and nice little babies and nice little parties, and you get into some nice little society and get a whole lot of nice little compliments from all the other people (J. Cary).

b) ‘”Sir Jasper Ffinch-Ffarowmere, Bart.’, he read.

The name was strange to him. ‘Sir Jasper Finch-Ffarowmere?’, said Wilfrid.

‘Ffinch-Ffarowmere’, corrected the visitor, his sensitive ear detecting the capital letters” (P.G.Wodehouse).

c) The car went out of the square, along through the side street, out under the trees and down the hill and away from Pampona (E. Hemingway); They took me down behind the line of officers below the road toward a group of people in a field by the river bank (E. Hemingway).

3. Define the type of connotative meaning in the following words:

a) house, abode, dome, cot, crib, hutch, hovel, den, hole;

працелюб, трудяга, трудоголік, роботяга, бджілка, віл, кінь;

b) He extricated himself from the bedclothes;

c) «Never mind,» said the stranger, cutting the address very short, «said enough-no more; smart chap that cabman-handled his fives well; but if I’d been your friend in the green jemmy-damn me- punch his head-, Cod I would-pig’s whisper-pieman too,-no gammon.»

«This coherent speech was interrupted by the entrance of the Rochester coachman, to announce that…»(Ch. Dickens).

Lecture No 2

Contrastive analysis of the phonetic and graphical expressive means and stylistic devices in English and Ukrainian

1. General notes

2. Phonetic means of stylistics

2.1.Onomatopoeia

2.2. Alliteration

2.3. Assonance

3. Rhyme

1. Rhythm

2. Graphical expressive means and stylistic devices

Practical tasks