Contents

FOREWORD...................................................................................................................................................................5

PART I. Stylistics as a Branch of Linguistics.................................................................................................................6

1.1. Stylistics and its Subject. The Notion of Style..............................................................................................6

1.2. Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices.......................................................................................................7

PART II. Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary..........................................................................................9

2.1. General Consideration..................................................................................................................................9

2.2. Neutral, Common Literary and Common Colloquial vocabulary...............................................................11

2.3. Literary Stratum of Words. Special Literary Vocabulary............................................................................11

2.3.1. Terms.........................................................................................................................................................11

2.3.2. Poetic Words.............................................................................................................................................12

2.3.3. Archaic Words...........................................................................................................................................13

2.3.4. Literary Coinages (including nonce-words)............................................................................................14

2.3.5. Barbarisms and Foreign Words...............................................................................................................15

PART III. Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary. Colloquial Stratum of Words. Special Colloquial Vocabulary...................................................................................................................................................................17

3.1. Slang.............................................................................................................................................................17

3.2. Jargonisms..................................................................................................................................................18

3.3. Professionalisms.........................................................................................................................................19

3.4. Dialectal Words...........................................................................................................................................19

3.5. Vulgar Words or Vulgarisms.......................................................................................................................20

3.6. Colloquial Coinages (nonce words)...........................................................................................................20

PART IV. Functional Styles of the English language..................................................................................................23

4.1. The Notion of Style.....................................................................................................................................23

4. 2. Bookish Style..............................................................................................................................................25

4.2.3. Scientific Prose Style...............................................................................................................................25

4.2.4. The Style of Official Documents.............................................................................................................26

4.2.5. The Publicistic Style.................................................................................................................................27

4.2.6. The Newspaper Style..............................................................................................................................28

4.2.7. Belles-lettres Style...................................................................................................................................29

4.3. Colloquial (casual) Style.............................................................................................................................30

PART V. Types of Meaning.........................................................................................................................................33

5.1. Logical Meaning..........................................................................................................................................34

5.2. Emotive Meaning........................................................................................................................................34

5.3 Nominative Meaning...................................................................................................................................34

PART VI. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices. SD Based on the Interaction of Different Meanings of a Word............................................................................................................................................................................34

6.1. SD based on the Interaction between Two Logical Meanings of a Word. Metaphor. Personification. Metonymy. Irony...............................................................................................................................................34

6.2. SD Based on Interaction between the Logical and Nominal Meanings. Antonomasia.....................................................................................................................................................38

6.3. SD based on the Interaction between Logical and Emotive Meanings. Epithet, Hyperbole, Oxymoron..........................................................................................................................................................38

6.3.1. Epithet......................................................................................................................................................38

6.3.2. Hyperbole................................................................................................................................................39

6.3.3. Oxymoron................................................................................................................................................40

6.4. Stylistic Devices Based on the Interaction between Primary and Derivative Logical Meaning of a Word (or between the meanings of two homonyms)...............................................................................................41

PART VII. Lexico-Syntactical Stylistic Devices...........................................................................................................42

PART VIII. Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices................................................................................46

PART IX. Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices......................................................................................50

PART X. Language Variation.......................................................................................................................................51

PART XI. Text as the Object of Linguistic Analysis in Stylistics.................................................................................59

Check Your Knowledge of Stylistics. Test.................................................................................................................60

Questions for Revision...............................................................................................................................................66

Exam Questions..........................................................................................................................................................67

Glossary.......................................................................................................................................................................69

Reference Books.........................................................................................................................................................74