English Stylistics for Translators. Стилистика английского языка для переводчиков. Учебное пособие
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ABOUT LANGUAGE, STYLE AND LITERATURE
1. Language is the dress of thought. |
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2. Learn to write well or, or not to write at all. |
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3.Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. / J. Swift
4.Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves. /
L .Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in the Wonderland
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or |
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enlargement of the language. |
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S. Johnson |
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6. Brevity is the soul of wit. / |
W. Shakespeare |
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Dialect words – those terrible marks of the beast to the truly |
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genteel. / |
Th. Hardy |
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark |
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Twain called Huckleberry Finn. / |
E. Hemingway |
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9. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. / R. Emerson
10. Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. / V. Hugo
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11. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. / W. Irving
12. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
/S. Johnson
13.If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. / J. Keats
14.Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the
happiest and best minds. / P. B. Shelley
15. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found. / A. Pope
16. Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. / W. S. Maugham
17. Winged words. / Homer
18.Translation is at best an echo.
19.A word to the wise is enough.
/G. H. Borrow
/B. Franklin.
20. Language is not an abstract constitution of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes of long generation of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. / W. Witman
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LITERATURE
1.Арнольд И. В. Стилистика современного английского языка.
– М., 1990.
2.Гальперин И. Р. Стилистика английского языка. – М., 1971.
3.Гуревич В.В. English Stylistics. Стилистика английского языка. - М., 2007.
4.Иванова Т. П., Брандес О. П. Стилистическая интерпретация текста. – М., 1991.
5.Кухаренко В. А. Семинарий по стилистике английского языка. – М., 1971.
6.Мосткова С..Я., Смыкалова Л.А., Чернявская С.П.
Английская литературоведческая терминология. – Л., 1967.
7.Сошальская Е. Г. и Прохорова В. И. Стилистический анализ.
– М., 1976.
8.Сборник цитат и изречений на английском языке. Сост. Л.С. Алексеева. – М., 1964.
9.Алексеева И. С. Введение в переводоведение. – М., 2004.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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Foreword...................................................................................... |
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Theoretical course on English Stylistics |
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1. Introduction to stylistic studies |
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The English Literary Language............................ .................... |
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Varieties of Language.................................................. ........... |
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General Notes on Style and Stylistics..................................... |
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Expressive Means (EM) and Stylistic Devices (SD)............... |
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II. Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary |
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General considerations................................................ ............ |
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Neutral, Common Literary and Common Colloquial |
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Vocabulary.................................................................. ............ |
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Special Literary Vocabulary |
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a) Terms................................................................ ................ |
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Poetic and Highly Literary Words.................................. |
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c) Archaic Words................................................. ................. |
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d) Barbarisms and Foreign Words........................ ................ |
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Literary Coinages (including Nonce Words).................... |
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3. Special Colloquial Vocabulary |
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Slang.................................................................................. |
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b) Jargonisms......................................................................... |
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Professionalisms................................................................ |
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Dialectal Words......................................................... ....... |
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e) Vulgar Words.................................................................... |
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Part III. Phonetic and Graphical Expressive Means and |
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Stylistic Devices |
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General Notes............................................................................... |
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Onomatopoeia.............................................................................. |
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Alliteration................................................................................... |
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Rhyme............................................................................. ............. |
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Rhythm......................................................................................... |
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Graphical Expressive Means ....................................................... |
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Part 1V. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices |
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A. Interaction of Different Types of Lexical Meaning |
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1.Interaction of Dictionary and Contextual Logical
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Metaphor................................................................................ |
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Metonymy.............................................................................. |
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Irony......................... |
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2. Interaction of |
Primary and Derivative Logical |
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Polysemy.................................................................................... |
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Zeugma and Pun........................................................................... |
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3. Interaction of Logical and Emotive Meanings |
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Interjections and. Exclamatory Words…................................... .38 |
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The Epithet................................................................................... |
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Oxymoron..................................................................................... |
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4. Interaction of Logical and Nominal Meanings |
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Antonomasia.................................................................... |
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B. Intensification of a Certain Feature of a Thing or |
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Phenomenon |
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Simile............................................................................................ |
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Periphrasis.................................................................................... |
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Euphemism................................................................................... |
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Hyperbole..................................................................................... |
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C. Peculiar Use of Set Expressions |
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Clichés.......................................................................................... |
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Proverbs and |
Sayings................................................................. |
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Epigrams...................................................................................... |
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Quotations................................................................................... |
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Allusion.... .................................................................................. |
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Decomposition of Set Phrases................................................... |
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PART V. Syntactical Expressive Means and |
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Stylistic Devices |
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A. The Structural Characteristics of the Text |
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The Syntactical Whole ........................................................... |
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The Paragraph ........................................................................ |
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B. Compositional Patterns of Syntactical Arrangement |
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Stylistic Inversion................................................................... |
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Detached Constructions......................................................... |
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Parallel |
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Chiasmus |
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Repetition............................................................................... |
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Enumeration........................................................................ .. |
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Suspense................................................................................ |
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Antithesis............................................................................... |
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C. Particular Ways of Combining Parts of the Utterance |
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Asyndeton................................................................................ |
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Polysyndeton............................................................................ |
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The Gap-Sentence Link............................................................ |
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D. Peculiar Use of Colloquial Constructions |
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Ellipsis..................................................................................... |
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Break-in-the-Narrative......................................................... ... |
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Question-in theNarrative...................................................... |
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Represented Speech................................................................ |
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a)Uttered Represented Speech.............…………….............65
b)Unuttered or Inner Represented Speech…………………65
E.Transferred Use of Structural Meaning
Rhetorical Questions..............................................….............67 Litotes….....……………………………………....................67
Part VI. Functional Style of the English Language |
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Introductory remarks.................................................................... |
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A.The Belles-Lettres Style
1.Language of Poetry………………….……………...........68
2.Emotive Prose…………………………………………….72
3.Language of Drama……………………………………....73
B.Publicist Style
Oratory and Speeches ……………………………………….75
The Essay………..…………………………………............. 75 Articles…...........…………………………………………….76
C.Newspaper Style
Advertisements and Announcements……………………….78 |
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The Editorial………………………………………………...78 |
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Brief News Items................................................................... |
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D.Sciettific Prose Style……………………………............79
E.The Style of Official Documents……………....................80
Conclusion.................................................................................. |
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Supplement for Translators
a) Poetry |
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John Keats On the Grasshopper and Cricket............................. |
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Pattern Stylistic Analysis.............................................................. |
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Translations into Russian.............................................................. |
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William Shakespeare Sonnet 27................................................ |
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Pattern Stylistic Analysis.............................................................. |
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Translation into Russian............................................................... |
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b) Emotive Prose |
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John Galsworthy |
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Part 2. Chapter 1. |
Mother and Son............................................ |
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Stylistic Analysis.......................................................................... |
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Translation into Russian............................................................. |
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List of Specific Stylistic Terms.................................... ........... |
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Familiar Quotations to be Cited............................................. |
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Literature….…………………………………………………..113 |
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