1. Preface

Student Workbook in Stylistics of the English Language is a supplement to the lecture course in stylistics of the English language.

The purpose of studying stylistics of the English language is the mastery of the stylistic analysis of the English written and oral discourse, the formation of future language and literature teachers’ skills to interpret language phenomena of different levels, to penetrate into the deep essence of the work of art, to find objective means of aesthetic, intellectual, psychological and emotional impact in the literary discourse, to obtain from it maximum information.

The object of study is the functional styles of the modern English language and the systems of stylistic phonetic, lexical, grammatical and syntactical expressive means and stylistic devices used in the English-language literary and publicist discourse.

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.

Seminar classes in the stylistics of the English language are aimed at forming future foreign language and literature teachers’ English-language stylistics competence regarded as a constituent of their professional philological competence.

The principal objectives of the seminar classes in the stylistics of the English language are to provide the students with:

- mastering the key notions and categories of the general stylistics and the stylistics of the English language;

- awareness of the major trends of modern stylistics;

- free orientation in the specifics of the functional styles of English;

- skills of practical application of knowledge of stylistic phonology and graphology, stylistic lexicology (stylistic stratification of the English vocabulary, in particular), stylistic grammar, stylistic semasiology, and literary discourse;

- skills of stylistic, semantic, contextual, etymological, morphological and functional analysis of language and speech units.

- skills of autonomous searching, evaluating and using scientific and factual information relevant for the stylistic research, using modern information resources.

2. Criteria for assessing students’ learning activity

2.1. Rating points calculation

You may regard your learning progress in the stylistic of the English language as excellent if you get five and more points in every seminar class – provided that you do excellently in the two module tests and successfully accomplish your individual task as well. This is far from unattainable, as the maximum points you can receive in one seminar class is thirteen (see Table 2.1 below).

You get rating points for the following activities:

a) five to seven minutes talk on a theoretical issue;

b) report of the practical task done at home;

c) complementing your peers’ talks;

d) reviewing your peers’ talks;

e) doing blitz-control tests.

Table 2.1