Questions for revision

1. What does stylistics deal with? What are the objects of studies of English Stylistics? What types of stylistics do you know? Give definition of Linguo-stylistics.

2. What is the base of links between Stylistics and other branches of linguistics?

3. What is functional style? How is individual style different from functional style? What major functional styles do you know?

4. What is the difference between expressive means and stylistic devices? Give definition of expressive means of a language. What is a stylistic device?

5. What are the main four groups of stylistic devices?

6. What lexico-syntactical stylistic devices do you know?

7. How does the choice of words depend on the social status of the speaker?

8. How can the English vocabulary be classified? What are the three main layers of the vocabulary? What are their peculiarities?

9. Where are formal words used? Are learned words used only in books? Which type of learned words, do you think, is especially suitable for verbal communication? Which is least suitable and even undesirable?

10. What is the difference between barbarisms and foreignisms, professionalisms and jargonisms?

11. What stylistic devices are based on the Interaction between the logical and nominal meanings of a word?

12. What stylistic devices are based on the interaction between two logical meanings of the word?

13. What stylistic devices are based on the interaction between the logical and emotive meanings of a word?

14. What stylistic devices are based on the interaction between the free and phraseological meaning of a word?

15. What causes the development of new meanings? What is the basis of development or change of meaning? What types of transference can you name? What is meant by the widening and the narrowing of the meaning?

16. How does the use of set expressions influence the effect of speech production? What is the stylistic function of set expressions?

17. Why is it difficult to classify functional styles? What are the common features of the functional styles?

18. What does stylistic semasiology deal with?

Exam questions

1. The Object of stylistics. Notion of style.

2. Stylistic classification of the English vocabulary.

3. Notion of the norm. Variant and invariant.

4. Language variation. Types of variation. Stylistic variation.

5. Social variation of the language.

6. Problems of political correctness.

7. Expressive means and stylistic devices.

8. The development of the English standard language.

9. Types of lexical meaning. Meaning from a stylistic point of view.

10. Neutral, common literary and common colloquial vocabulary.

11. Special literary vocabulary. Terms.

12. Poetic and highly literary words.

13. Archaic, obsolescent and obsolete words.'

14. Barbarisms and foreign words.

15. .Literary coinages.

16. Special colloquial vocabulary. Slang.

17. Jargonisms. Professionalisms.

18. Dialectal words.

19. Vulgar words.

20. Colloquial coinages.

21. Phonetic expressive means and SD.

22. Interaction of primary and contextual meanings. Metaphor.

23. Metonymy.

24. Irony.

25. SD based on polysemy. Zeugma, Pun.

26. Interaction of logical and emotive meanings. The Epithet.

27. Oxymoron.

28. Interjections and exclamatory words.

29. Interaction of logical and nominal meanings. Antonomasia.

30. Simile.

31. Periphrasis.

32. Euphemism.

33. Hyperbole.

34. Peculiar use of set expressions.

35. Compositional patterns of syntactical arrangement. Stylistic inversion.

36. Detached construction. Parallel Construction. j

37. Repetition. Enumeration.

38. Suspense. Climax.

39. Antithesis.

40. Asyndeton. Polysyndeton.

41. Represented speech.

42. The belles-letters style. Language of poetry.

43. The belles-letters style. Emotive prose.

44. The belles-letters style. Language of drama.

45. The colloquial style.