- •Кафедра германской филологии
- •Для студентов заочной формы обучения
- •Введение
- •Методические рекомендации по выполнению контрольной работы
- •Оглавление
- •Lexicology and its role among other linguistic disciplines
- •Assignments
- •General characteristics of the english lexicon
- •Assignments
- •Complete the table using the words from the box. Do not fill the shaded boxes.
- •Identify the register reference of the following boldface words as:
- •In the following passage Cockney (rhyming slang) phrases replace the following words. Identify them. Answer:
- •4.1. Identify a historism in one of these sentences:
- •4.2. Identify lexical archaism:
- •4.3. Identify a grammatical archaism:
- •Dialect
- •Sometimes common British terms leave other English speakers in the fog. Try to find their meaning.
- •Register
- •What do the following short expressions mean?
- •Define each of the following items. Indicate any features of style, register or dialect. Use a dictionary for the purpose.
- •Replace the general, overused adjectives and adverbs with a more specific and effective one.
- •Replace the underlined words with the phrasal verbs. Use the verbs from the list in the previous exercise.
- •Etymological characteristics of the english lexicon
- •Assignments
- •Give the Russian equivalents for the following foreign words:
- •Give the meaning and the origin of the following words and names used as words:
- •Morphological characteristics of the english lexicon and word-formation
- •Assignments
- •Comment on the structure of the combinations of words given below:
- •Explain the meaning of the underlined units:
- •Semantic structure of a word. Changes in semantic structures
- •Assignments
- •Compare the semantic structure of the following words (use componential or contrastive analysis):
- •Present the semantic structure of the verb “remember”; use distributional and transformational analyses.
- •Synonymic and antonymic relations in the english lexicon
- •Assignments
- •Using a dictionary o synonyms call synonyms for all the meanings of the following words:
- •Substitute the underlined word with a synonym:
- •Classify the following synonyms into three groups: a) ideographic, b) stylistic, c)ideographic-stylistic.
- •Classify the following words and word combinations into lexical sets and decide which word is the dominant word:
- •Make up a list of all the English colour terms and find their Russian equivalents. Form hyponymic structures.
- •Collocability and combinability in modern english. Phraseology
- •Assignments
- •Using various dictionaries compare the grammatical valency of the words:
- •Give words of the same root in Russian. Compare their semantic structure and valency.
- •Give English equivalents for the Russian words:
- •From the words in brackets choose the correct one to go with each of the synonyms given below:
- •Select the adjective that best describes the noun:
- •Find phraseological units, comment on their meaning and type.
- •Explain the meaning of the following English idioms:
- •Language – dialect – variant
- •Assignments
- •Who do you think is he most likely to be speaking, an American or a British person?
- •Lexicography
- •Assignments
- •Look at the numbered parts of the page. Label the components given below with the parts of the dictionary page:
- •Using the following plan, provide a description of a dictionary:
- •Список тем для самостоятельной работы
General characteristics of the english lexicon
Study the following topics and complete the assignments bellow. Provide the corresponding précis.
Register and functional style. Stylistically marked lexicon.
Neutral style and vocabulary and its characteristic features.
Colloquial style. Slang, its characteristics. Classification of slang words. Rhyming slang. Vulgarism. Taboo.
Territory dialects and dialectal words.
Formal style and its characteristics.
Terminology and its characteristics.
Neologisms. Nonce-words. Archaisms (lexical and grammatical). Historisms.
Assignments
Complete the table using the words from the box. Do not fill the shaded boxes.
shades meal kids cop ensure umbrella children |
STYLE
In a very broad sense, style
includes level of formality (e.g. slang, neutral, formal, informal,
etc.) as well as styles such as humorous, ironic, poetic, literary,
etc.
Neutral |
Formal |
Informal |
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offspring |
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sunglasses |
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policeman/woman |
police officer |
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brolly |
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repast |
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make sure |
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Identify the register reference of the following boldface words as:
A
Neutral
F
Rhyming slang
B
Learned (formal, official)
G
Social/professional jargon
C
Terminology
H
Vulgar
D
Informal (colloquial)
I
Taboo
E
Slang
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“How’s your cousin Pete?” Nick asked the giant Cottella. “He did cancer and he’s under the hammer, but he’s gonna be okay.” “He’s beautiful.” “Yeah. Pete’s good people; he’s just had a little bad luck. He was back-up man on a bank job, but it wasn’t his stick, and the fuckin’ cops tagged him and put him away. He did hard time. The hacks tired to turn him around but they was spinnin’ their wheels.”
My mind started playing the shit tape monotonously.