- •Part 1: Morphostylistics
- •1. The stylistics of the substantive word
- •The English Noun has the following subclasses:
- •The Noun Substantivity
- •The word-building apparatus makes it possible to express various categorial meanings with the help of one and the same lexical material:
- •Белизна Белеть Белый ………… Самолет ............... Самолетный …………
- •The man is quite enormous.
- •The man is quite an enormity.
- •You are a horrid girl.
- •You horrid little thing.
- •This / these ideas of hers
- •Adjective
- •3. The stylistics of the Verb
- •5. Other parts of speech in style
- •Part 2: Stylistic Lexicology of the English Language
- •Theoretical back-up
- •The word and its meaning. The types of connotative meanings. Criteria for the stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary.
- •Stylistic functions of the words having lexico-stylistic paradigm
- •Poetic diction
- •Archaic words
- •Barbarisms and foreign words
- •3. Stylistic functions of the words having no lexico-stylistic paradigm
- •4. Neutral, common literary and common colloquial vocabulary
- •1). Terms
- •2). Poetic words
- •3). Archaic, Obsolescent and Obsolete words
- •4). Barbarisms and Foreignisms
- •6. Special colloquial vocabulary. Slang
- •1). Jargonisms
- •2). Professionalisms
- •3). Dialectal words
- •4). Vulgar words
- •5). Colloquial coinages
- •Part 2: Stylistic Phraseology
- •Theoretical back-up
- •1. General considerations
- •2. The Stylistic classification of phraseological units
- •3. The peculiar use of phraseological units in belles-lettres
- •4. Stylistic quasi - phraseology or phenomena related to phraseology
- •Self-check questions:
Self-check questions:
1. What brings phraseology close to syntax?
2. What brings phraseology into the vocabulary (lexical) sphere?
3. What is the place of quotations in the seminar and why are they considered as a quasi-phrasiological phenomenon? Name the other quasi-phrasiological phenomena.
4. What happens to quotations when they lose their contextuality?
5. State the difference between an epigram and quotation.
6. State the difference between an idiomatic phrase and a proverb.
7. Specify the difference between proverbs and epigrams.
8. Give the definition of allusion, specify the difference between allusion and quotation.
9. Extend on the stylistic functions of allusion.
10.Proceeding from the definition of allusion, speak on the importance of the background knowledge in text comprehension. Provide examples from literature.