- •Irina kamensky stylistic of the english language student workbook
- • Department of Foreign Languages, 2013 content
- •1. Preface
- •2. Criteria for assessing students’ learning activity
- •2.1. Rating points calculation
- •Rating points calculation
- •2.2. Criteria for assessing talks on theoretical issues
- •Criteria for assessing talks on theoretical issues
- •2.3. Criteria for assessing practical tasks
- •Criteria for assessing practical tasks
- •2.4. Criteria for assessing complementing peers’ talks
- •2.5. Criteria for assessing reviews of peers’ talks
- •2.6. Criteria for assessing blitz-control tests
- •2.7. Criteria for assessing module tests
- •Module tests: rating points calculation
- •A plan of your report
- •Seminar 2. The publicists and newspaper styles
- •Seminar 3. The scientific prose and official documents styles
- •A plan of your report
- •3.2. Content module 2 Expressive means and stylistic devices Seminar 4. Stylistic classification of the English vocabulary
- •A plan of your report
- •Seminar 5. Phonetic stylistic devices
- •Seminar 6. Graphical and morphological expressive means
- •A plan of your report
- •Seminar 7. Metaphor. Metonymy. Irony
- •A plan of your report
- •Seminar 8. Zeugma. Pun. Figures of opposition
- •A plan of your report
- •A plan of your report
- •A plan of your report
- •Seminar 11. Stylistic use of structural meaning
- •5. Tips on getting ready for seminar classes
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5. Tips on getting ready for seminar classes
1. When getting ready for a talk on a theoretical issue, address your notes of the corresponding lecture and re-read it carefully. Check with a recommended textbook in the stylistics of the English language whether your notes are complete enough. Highlight key concepts and terms. Be sure to write down in your workbook the meaning and transcription of the key terms and notions. Check your understanding of key concepts and terms with your lecture notes and the textbook.
2. Make a plan of your talk. Write a brief synopsis of your talk after the plan without using your notes of the lecture. This will let you feel how well you have acquired theoretical information.
3. Your talk should not exceed 5 to 7 minutes. It will take the skill to differentiate essential and secondary information. You ought to be laconic, but remember to illustrate theoretical postulates with examples. Your talk will produce a better impression if you are able to provide examples of your own, that is, those you’ve managed to find in literary texts.
4. Your talk is to be correct both in content and form. Try and follow the scientific speech style. Remember about the logics of your speech. It is to be close in style to talks delivered at scientific conferences.
Firstly, it involves definition of each term you use.
Secondly, you are to reveal different opinions on a scientific problem. When disclosing scholars’ views, remember to give the full name of every scientist you mention.
Thirdly, when characterizing several kinds of a stylistic phenomenon, first enumerate all the kinds and only then give their specifics.
5. Finally, try and formulate your own opinion on the problem of lingua-stylistics you are analyzing. Your views may not coincide with that of the lector or the author of the textbook or a scientific article. The main thing is for you to aspire for independent thinking and the skill to prove your opinion.
6. While doing a practical task, first of all make sure you understand the excerpt or utterance under analysis. If necessary, address a wide context – that of the whole work or even the whole legacy of the author.
Look through the text of the corresponding lecture and the chapter of the textbook paying special attention to the illustrative examples. It will narrow your search to expressive means of a certain language level.
Having defined the type of an expressive means, define its kind. Apart from expressive means typology, pay attention to the stylistics property of lexis, presence of colloquial or bookish words, poeticisms, archaisms, professionalisms etc.
Remember to characterize the function of an expressive means or stylistic device: what content weigh it has in the text, which connotative meanings expresses, what characteristics or mood helps form.
In the latter point, do not fear to appear wrong, you have the right of your own reader perception; but your conclusions ought to be well-grounded.
Educational Edition
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, 2014. – 55 p.
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