THE REPUBLICAN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

“CRIMEAN UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES” (Yalta)

YEVPATORIAN INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENSE

department of Foreign Languages

Irina kamensky stylistic of the english language student workbook

for students majoring in the English language and foreign literature

Evpatoria : Department of Foreign Languages, 2014

UDC 37.091.3: 811.111’342(075.8) Published by the resolution of the Foreign

BC 81.432.1-1 English Languages Department of the RHEI

K-18 “Crimean University for the Humanities”

(Yalta)

Minutes # 1 dated 28.08.2013

K-18 Kamensky I. Stylistics of the English Language: Students Workbook : for students majoring in the English language and foreign literature / Irina Kamensky. – Evpatoria : CUH Foreign Languages Department, 2013. – 55 p.

Student Workbook in Stylistics of the English Language is a learning tool helping the English language and foreign literature majors organise autonomous mastering both the fundamentals of stylistic theory and expressive resources of English.

Student Workbook contains: seminar plans specifying theoretical and practical tasks to be accomplished; terminological glossary for the key concepts and categories of stylistics to be acquired for further usage; lists of illustrative examples to be completed; lists of recommended literature sources; tips for students to get ready for the seminar classes with maximum efficacy.

Reviewers:

I. A. Kerim-Zadeh, Ph.D., Professor, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Academy of Enviromental Protection and Resort Development

O. V. Ermolenko, Ph.D., Associate Professor, the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature of Taurida National V. I. Vernadsky University

Title in Russian: Каменская И. Стилистика английского языка: студенческая рабочая тетрадь : методические рекомендации для студентов направления подготовки «Язык и литература (английский) / Ирина Каменская. – Евпатория : Кафедра иностранных языков КГУ, 2013. – 55 с.

 Kamensky I., 2013

 Department of Foreign Languages, 2013 content

1. preface 4

2. Criteria for assessing students’ learning activity 5

2.1. Rating points calculation 5

2.2. Criteria for assessing talks on theoretical issues 5

2.3. Criteria for assessing practical tasks 7

2.4. Criteria for assessing complementing peers’ talks 10

2.5. Criteria for assessing reviews of peers’ talks 11

2.6. Criteria for assessing blitz-control tests 11

2.7. Criteria for assessing module tests 11

3. seminar plans 13

3.1. content module 1. Functional styles of English 13

Seminar 1. Functional styles of English.The belles-lettres style 13

Seminar 2. The publicists and newspaper styles 18

Seminar 3. The scientific prose and official documents styles 21

3.2. content module 2. Expressive means and stylistic devices 24

Seminar 4. Stylistic classification of the English vocabulary 24

Seminar 5. Phonetic stylistic devices 28

Seminar 6. Graphical and morphological expressive means 33

Seminar 7. Metaphor. Metonymy. Irony 37

Seminar 8. Zeugma. Pun. Figures of opposition 41

Seminar 9. Interaction of logical and nominal meanings 44

Seminar 10. Compositional patterns of syntactical arrangement 47

Seminar 11. Stylistic use of structural meaning 50

5. tips on getting ready for seminar classes 54