Assignments for Independent Work

Tests

Assignments for Independent Work

Tests Stylistics as a Science

1. Who is considered to be the founder of Stylistics as a linguistic science?

1. G. Turner

2. Ch. Bally

3. N. Winner

4. W. Jackobson

2. Choose the correct variant to finish the definition: Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which deals with…

1. stylistic systems of two or more languages in comparison;

2. expressive resources and functional styles of a language;

3. individual styles of authors;

4. expressive means and stylistic devices of certain messages (texts).

3. Attribute properly the object of studying to the following type of stylistics: A type of stylistics which investigates stylistic systems of two or more languages in comparison.

1. literary stylistics

2. contrastive stylistics

3. communicative stylistics

4. linguostylistics

4. Name the author of the following definition: Stylistics is a language science which deals with the results of the act of communication.

1. O. Morokhovsky

2. I. Galperin

3. Ch. Bally

4. V. Kukharenko

5. Match the following notion with its definition: style

1. the environment of a speech unit where these or those properties of that unit are realized or shown;

2. the invariant of the phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactical patterns circulating in the language at a given period of time;

3. a quality of language which communicates precisely emotions and thoughts, or a system of emotions peculiar to the author;

4. the segment of speech which brings figurative information.

6. Match the following notion with its definition: norm

1. The environment of a speech unit where these or those properties of that unit are realized or shown

2. the invariant of the phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactical patterns circulating in the language at a given period of time

3. a quality of language which communicates precisely emotions and thoughts, or a system of emotions peculiar to the author

4. the segment of speech which brings figurative information

7. Group the following words into phonetic expressive means and phonetic stylistic devices: alliteration, pitch, melody, euphony, onomatopoeia, stress, pause, assonance, singing, whispering.

8. Draw schematically the process of Information Transmission according to the Theory of Information. Use the following notions: sender, recipient, message, noise, decoder, coder, signal, channel of connection.

9. Add the missing notion: speech activity – speech - …

10. Complete the table using the following notions: language, speech, selection, combination.

Syntagmatics	Paradigmatics

11. Provide an example of the single situational context.

12. Provide an example of the typical situational context.

13. Choose the suitable words in the brackets to fill in the gaps in the statements about expressive means:

1. (language/speech) _________ elements of various levels which are stylistically marked at a definite (speech/language) _________ level;

2. stylistic meaning is (fixed/not fixed) _________to the expressive means;

3. stylistic meaning is caused by (syntagmatic/paradigmatic)_____________ relations of elements of one level.

14. Choose the suitable words in the brackets to fill in the gaps in the statements about stylistic devices:

1. ways of combining (language/speech) _________ units of the lower level in the units of the higher level;

2. stylistic meaning (is fixed to the stylistic devices/appears in the context of a speech unit);

3. stylistic meaning is caused by (syntagmatic/paradigmatic)_____________ relations of the units of one or different levels.

15. Innumerate the components of the scheme of Information Transmission.