1. O. Morokhovsky;

2. I. Galperin;

3. Ch. Bally;

4. J. Swift.

Self-Assessment Questions Stylistics as a Science

1. Do you agree with those who say that there exist quite neutral texts, texts having no stylistic markers? Can you find such a text?

2. Is the absence of "expressiveness" stylistically relevant?

3. What type of stylistics as a linguistic science was meant by G. Buffon who said: “Style is the man himself”?

4. J. Swift defined style as “Proper Words in proper Places…” What did he think the speaker should take into consideration while choosing words for expressing his ideas?

5. Name four main types of stylistics.

6. Name types of the context.

7. Name subtypes of the extralinguistic (situational) context.

8. Name subtypes of the linguistic (speech) context.

9. Name two types of synonyms.

10. Provide examples of speech synonyms and language synonyms.

11. Which component in the scheme of Information Transmission denotes the surrounding in which the signal functions?

12. Which component in the scheme of Information Transmission denotes a set of signs and rules of their usage?

13. Which component in the scheme of Information Transmission contains knowledge and sense and aesthetic experience?

14. Provide examples of selection and combination of words in the English language.

15. What are two main types of information?

16. What are four main types of connotative information?

Stylistic Phonetics

1. Explain the concept of the Theory of Sound Symbolism.

2. Which phonetic means can reproduce phonetic peculiarities of speech?

3. What are the functions of stress, tones and melody in the phonostylistic analysis of the text?

4.Explain the notion of "phonetic associations". Provide examples.

5.What are 3 basic stylistic devices of instrumentation?

6. How do you understand the notions of euphony and cacophony?

7.Name the main concepts of versification.

8. Define 5 main metrical feet.

9.What are the peculiarities of verse structure?

10. What is achieved by graphical changes of writing?

Stylistic Lexicology

1. Provide examples of poetic words.

2.Speak about the spheres of usage of bookish words.

3.Give your opinion of various classifications of archaic words.

4.Share your opinion of different views on neologisms.5

5.Speak on the peculiarities of barbarisms and foreignisms. What is your opinion of the notions of "denizen" and "alien"?

6.What are colloquialisms expressed by?

7. Is there any difference between slang and jargon? Compare points of view of different stylisticians.

8. Name 2 types of vulgarisms.

9. Speak about types of phraseological phrases..

10. What are the ways of stylistic usage of phraseology? Provide examples.

Stylistic Syntax

1. What do you know about one-word sentences?

2. Speak on the stylistic functions of aposiopesis.

3. What are the stylistic functions of syntactic tautology?

4. Comment on classifications of repetition. Compare opinions of different authors.

5. What sentence members are most often detached?

Stylistic Semasiology

1. Speak on the classification of metaphor.

2. Speak on the types of euphemism.

3. Define varieties of epithets.

4. How is synecdoche realized in speech?

5. What are the types of periphrasis?

6. What is play on words based on?

Functional Styles

1. Speak about the correlation of the notions of style and norm.

2. Define the linguistic features of belles-lettres style.

3. What is the difference between publicistic and newspaper styles?

4. Define the peculiarities of the style of official documents.

5. Point out the main features of scientific prose style.

Project Work

1. Personalities in Stylistics (Ch. Bally, R. Jakobson, M. Riffater and others).

2. Famous Stylistic Schools.

3. Development of Stylistics in Ukraine.

4. Types of Stylistics and their Founders.

5. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Stylistics.

6. Language and Speech. Types of Speech and their Sublanguages.

7. Image and Imagery in Fiction.

8. The Art of Creating Verses.

9. Gender Related Differences in Lexicon.

10. Slang and its Types.

11. Phraseology in Advertisements.

12. Syntactic Peculiarities of the Style of Advertisements and Newspapers.

13. Semantic Means of Expressing Humour in Fiction.

14. Theory of Metaphor. Metaphor and Imagery.

15. The Concept of Text in Stylistics.

16. Text and Discourse. The Notion of Discourse.

17. Types of Discourse.

18. The Concept of Frame in the Text.

19. The Problem of Functional Style. An Outline of Style Classification.

20. Linguostylistic Analysis of Texts of Different