Seminar 6. Graphical and morphological expressive means

Objective: to raise awareness of the language expressive possibilities at the graphic and morphological levels; to clarify the functioning of graphon and other graphical changes in the artistic text, to get ready for discussing the ways and functions of foregrounding a morpheme

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1. Graphon as a means of graphemic foregrounding

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. Graphical changes

3. The ways of foregrounding a morpheme

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. Morphological (grammatical) metaphor

Practical tasks

1. Indicate the kind of additional information about the speaker supplied by graphon. Write down your opinion after the example.

A. “‘You’ll be ‘avin’ your little trouble soon, eh, Polly?’ asked one good lady of another.

‘Oh, I reckon I’ve got another two months ter go yet,’ answered Polly. (From Liza of Lambeth by W. S. Maugham) ____________________________

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B. “Said Kipps one day, “As’e – I should say, ah, has’e... Ye know, I got a lot of difficulty with them two words, which is which.” “Well, “as” is a conjunction, and “has” is a verb.” “I know,” said Kipps, “but when is “has” a conjunction, and when is “as” a verb?” (From Kipps by H. G. Wells) ___________

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2. Think of the causes originating graphon (young age, a physical defect of speech, lack of education, the influence of dialectal norms, affectation, intoxication, carelessness in speech, etc.). Write down your opinion after the example.

A. “The stuttering film producer S.S. Sisodia was known as ‘Whiwhisky because I’m papa partial to a titi tipple; mamadam, my caca card.’” (S. Rushdie)

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B. “My daddy’s coming tomorrow on a nairplane” (From A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J. D. Salinger) ________________________________________

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C. “Oh. Well, then, you just trot over to the barie-poo... < > and make your little mommy a gweat big dwink.” (From Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by E Albee) ________________________________________________________

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3. State the function of graphon in captions, posters, advertisements, etc. repeatedly used in American press, TV, roadside advertising. Write down your opinion after the example.

A. Weather forecast for today: Hi 59, Lo 32, Wind lite.

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B. We recommend a Sixty seconds meal: Steak-Umm.

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C. Best jeans for this Jeaneration.

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D. Follow our advice: Drinka Pinta Milka Day.

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4. Analyze the morphemic structure and the purpose of creating the occasional words in the following examples.

A. “The girls could not take off their panama hats because this was not far from the school gates and hatlessness was an offence.” (From The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by M. Spark)

B. “Curiouser and curiouser!” (From Alice in Wonderland by L. Carroll)

C. “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.” (From Alice in Wonderland by L. Carroll)

	morphemic structure	purpose
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5. Provide the following notions with definition

notion	definition
classifying grammatical meaning
connotative grammatical meaning
contextual meaning
denotative grammatical meaning
depersonalization
foregrounding a morpheme
grammatical transposition
graphemic foregrounding
graphical change
intralinguistic denotation
morpheme valency
sustained compositional metaphor

6. Provide the following terms with examples from literary texts

term	example
antonomasia
capitalization
graphon
historical present
hyphenation
intensifier
morphemic repetition
morphological metaphor
multiplication of a grapheme

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