II. State the functions of graphons and other graphical stylistic devices in the following examples:

1. My daddy’s coming tomorrow on a nairplane (J.Salinger).

2. She mimicked a lisp: “I don’t weally know wever I’m a good girl. The last time he’ll do would to mix up with a howwid woman” (J.Braine).

3. After a hum a beautiful Negress sings, “Without a song, the dahay would nehever end” (J.Updike).

4. He spoke with the flat ugly “a” and withered “r” of Boston Irish, and Levi looked at him and mimicked, “All right, I’ll give the caads a break and staat playing” (N.Mailer).

5. “Whereja get all these pictures?”, he said. “Meetcha at the corner. Wuddaya think she’s doing out there?” (J.Salinger).

6. Come on, I’ll show you summat (St.Barstow).

7. Well, I dunno. I was kinda threatening him (St.Barstow).

8. “Now listen, Ed, stop that, now. I’m desperate. I am desperate, Ed, do you hear?” (Th.Dreiser).

9. “ALL our troubles are over, old girl,” he said fondly. (S.Maugham).

10. Thanx for the purchase (Advertisement).

11. Best jeans for this jeaneration (Advertisement).

12. Follow our advice: Drinka Pinta Milka Day (Advertisement).

III. Comment on the function of morphological grammatical categories and parts of speech that create stylistic effects:

1. His mother made a nunnery out of widowhood, vowed never to marry again and to devote her life to the care and upbringing of the boy in such a way that the accidents of life would leave him uninvolved and for ever safe. Thus the boy was overindulged, overprotected, overfed on highly nourishing and scientifically chosen foods, kept from the hurly-burly of ordinary childhood, forbidden to climb trees, go out for teams, consort with rough children, play with toy guns or bows or arrows and to go to and from the neighbourhood school unescorted (I.Shaw).

2. One night I am standing in front of Mindy’s restaurant on Broadway, thinking of practically nothing whatever, when all of a sudden I feel a very terrible pain in my left foot (Runyon).

3. She‘s the Honourable Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, you know – sister-in-law of Lord Pastmasser – a very wealthy woman, South American (Waugh).

4. Besides Rain, Nan and Mrs. Prewett, there was a Mrs. Kingsley, the wife of the Governors (Dolgopolova).

5. I walked past Mrs. Shumway, who jerked her head around in a startled woodpeckerish way (Erdrich).

6. That’s the foolest thing I ever heard (Berger).

7. The clamour of waters, snows, winds, rains … (Hemingway).

8. Love’s first snowdrop

Virgin kiss! (Burns).

9. He was the most married man I’ve ever met (Arnold).

10. You are being very absurd, Laura, he said coldly (Mansfield).

Seminar 4

STYLISTIC LEXICOLOGY

Points for Discussion

1. Denotative and connotative meaning of a word. Types of connotations.

2. Criteria for the stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary.

3. Words which have a lexico-stylistic paradigm. Words which have no lexico-stylistic paradigm.

4. Stylistic functions of literary (high-flown) words and their subdivision.

5. Stylistic functions of colloquial (low–flown) words and their subdivision.

6. Stylistic functions of neutral words.

7. Stylistic usage of phraseology.