- •Stylistics. It’s subject, object and branches.
- •2.The varieties of the English language. Тhe peculiarities of the spoken and the written varieties.
- •Expressive means and stylistic devices as basic concepts of stylistics.
- •4.The notion of style in stylistics. The theory of functional styles. Functional style lassification.
- •5.Stylistic Differentiation of the vocabulary: vocabulary layers, their aspects, principles of interaction.
- •6. Stylistic stratification of the English vocabulary: literary vocabulary.
- •Barbarisms and Foreignisms
- •7. Stylistic stratification of the English vocabulary: colloquial vocabulary.
- •Vulgarisms are:
- •8. Lexical expressive means and stylistic devices based on interaction of primarily dictionary and contextually imposed meaning (metaphor, metonymy, irony).
- •9.Interaction of primary and derivative logical meaning: zeugma and pun
- •10. Interaction of logical and emotive meanings: epithets (semantic and structural classification)
- •11. Interaction of logical and nominal meanings: antonomasia, oxymoron.
- •12. Intensification of a certain feature of a thing or phenomenon: simile, hyperbole.
- •13. Intensification of a certain feature of a thing or phenomenon: periphrasis, euphemism.
- •14. Syntactical expressive means and stylistic devices. Classification. Stylistic inversion, parallel construction, detached construction, chiasmus.
- •15. Syntactical expressive means and stylistic devices. Classification. Suspense, Climax, Anticlimax, Antithesis.
- •16. Functional style classification. Functional style characteristics. Belles-letters style: substyles, common and peculiar features.
- •17. Functional style classification. Functional style characteristics. Publicistic style: substyles, common and peculiar features.
- •18. Functional style classification. Functional style characteristics. Newspaper style: substyles, common and peculiar features.
- •19. Functional style classification. Functional style characteristics. Scientific style: substyles, common and peculiar features.
- •20. Functional style classification. Functional style characteristics. Style of official documents: substyles, common and peculiar features.
19. Functional style classification. Functional style characteristics. Scientific style: substyles, common and peculiar features.
Function:
to bring proofs to clinch a theory, create new concepts, disclose the internal laws of existence development, relations between different phenomena
Language means are:
Objective
Precise
Unemotional
Devoid of individuality
Substyles: 1 language of humanitarian sciences 2 language of technical sciences 3 language of popular scientific prose
Functional genres: article/paper, monograph, teaching manuals/materials, dissertation, patents
Characteristics
1. Conjunctions and prepositions:
prepositions: of, to, in, for, with, on, at, by, from, out, about, down;
prepositional phrases: in terms of; in view of, in spite of, in common with, on behalf of, as a result of; by means of, on the ground of, in case of;
conjunctional phrases: in order that, in case that, in spite of the fact that, on the ground that;
pronouns: one, it, we, they;
2.Restriction to formal style: professional vocabulary and learned words
3. Definite lexical categories:
Verbs of exposition: ascertain, assume, compare, construct, describe, determine, estimate, examine, explain, label, plot, record, test, verify.
Verbs of warning and advising: avoid, check, ensure, notice, prevent, remember, take care; also several negative items: not drop, not spill.
Verbs of manipulation:, assemble, begin, connect, cover, decrease, fill, mix, prepare, release, switch on, take, weigh.
Adjectival modifiers and their related adverbs: careful(y), clockwise, continuous(ly), final(ly), gradual(ly), moderate(ly), periodic(ally), secure(ly), subsequent(ly), vertical(ly).
4. Syntax
Complete (non-elliptical) sentence
Extended attributive phrases
Quotation and reference usage
Impersonality – passive constructions
20. Functional style classification. Functional style characteristics. Style of official documents: substyles, common and peculiar features.
Aim - to state the conditions binding two parties and to reach agreement between two contracting parties.
Subdivisions:
the language of business documents;
the language of legal documents;
the language of diplomacy;
the language of military documents.
Characteristics
Special system of clichés and set expressions (I beg to inform you;
Peculiar terms
Usage of bookish words to inform (=to tell); to assist (=to help); to cooperate (=to work together); with the following objectives/ends (=for these purposes); to be determined/resolved (=to wish); inquire (to ask).
Usage of abbreviations
Logical dictionary meaning