- •Предисловие
- •Sample Answer How Europeans See Russia and More
- •Vocabulary
- •Stylistic Analysis of the Newspaper Article
- •By Anna Shirokova
- •British Say No to War
- •Vocabulary
- •Pancakes Galore: Muscovites Celebrate Maslenitsa
- •Vocabulary
- •From Crisis to Baby Boom
- •Sample Answer The Dialogue Making a reservation
- •Vocabulary
- •Stylistic Analysis of the dialogue
- •The Dialogue At the Doctor’s
- •Vocabulary
- •Chapter 3 Distinctive stylistic linguistics features of familiar colloquial style
- •The Dialogue Country life
- •Vocabulary
- •Stylistic Analysis of the dialogue “Country life”
- •Informal language
- •Words that join ideas Task
- •Exclamations with so and such Tasks
- •Chapter 4 The Style of Official documents Distinctive stylistic linguistics features of the style of official documents
- •Formal Letter
- •17 Blundered Road
- •Sample Answer
- •Letter 1
- •Letter 2
- •Your Address:
- •The Beginning: Dear Sir,
- •The Ending: Yours faithfully,
- •A letter of complaint
- •Vocabulary
- •Sending a fax
- •Lexical features:
- •Vocabulary
- •Stylistic Analysis of the article Communicative Curriculum Design for the 21st Century, by Sandra j. Savington
- •The Use of ethics in the efl classroom
- •Vocabulary
- •Chapter 6 Lexical stylistics Animal idioms
- •Synonyms and antonyms Tasks
- •Figures of Speech
- •English Fairy tales
- •Vocabulary
- •Dialect Words
- •Bill Cole talks about when he was young
- •Vocabulary
- •The dialogue
- •Chapter 8 Stylistic syntax Major principles at work on stylistic syntax
- •The omission or absence of one or more parts of the sentence:
- •Reiteration (repetition) of some parts:
- •The inverted word order (inversion):
- •English Fairy tales the story of the three bears
- •Vocabulary
- •Chapter 9
- •Graham greene
- •Vocabulary
- •Stylistic Analysis of the text “I Spy”, by Graham Greene
- •I am born
- •Vocabulary
- •Список рекомендуемой литературы
Words that join ideas Task
1. Read the following dialogues and point out the stylistic distinctive features of these words that testify to its specific character:
‘Ah, now, Peter! Come over here!’
‘My name’s Jack, actually’.
‘What an awful journey you had! You must be exhausted! Anyway, you’re here now so let’s not worry any more’.
‘Although George was very rich, he wasn’t a happy man’
(taken from “New Headway Intermediate”)
Exclamations with so and such Tasks
Read and listen to the sentences:
Tom was scared. He was very scared. He was so scared.
Do you think this use of so is more written or spoken? What effect does it have?
2. Look at the sentences. When do we use so, such a(n), such, so many and so much:
We were all so worried!
Mike’s such an idiot!
It was such a good idea of Jamie’s!
He has such crazy friends!
We had such awful weather on holiday!
There are so many places I want to go to!
I’ve got so much work!
3. Complete the sentences in A with so, such a(n), such, so many or so much. Then match them with the sentences in B. Listen and check. Practice the exclamations.
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B |
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I could eat a horse. I don’t know where it’s all gone. You really didn’t have to. She understands every word I say. There was nowhere to dance. Thank you so much for inviting us. But I can’t stand there kids. I don’t know how they live in it. |
(taken from “New Headway Pre-intermediate”)
Chapter 4 The Style of Official documents Distinctive stylistic linguistics features of the style of official documents
Compositional features: coded graphical layout, logical arrangements, order-of-priority organization of content and information, accurate using of punctuation.
Lexical features: prevalence of stylistically neutral and bookish vocabulary, terminology (legal: testimony, acquittal), proper names (names of enterprise, companies), foreign words (status quo – статус кво, force majeure – форс мажор, persona non grata – персона нон грата), abbreviations, contractions and conventional symbols (M.P. – member of Parliament, Ltd (limited), $, £, €), toponyms (Tatarstan, London, Paris), international words (innovation, capitalistic, mentality, cosmopolitan, tolerant) etc.
Morphological features: adherence to the norm.
Syntactical features: use of the long complex sentences, passive and participial constructions (In this connection we wish to state that only about 12 per cent of skilled workforce is engaged in minor industrial activity associated with servicing the city’s growth) 1.