Seminar 2 Phonographic and morphemic expressive means Questions and tasks

Questions:

1. What is sound – instrumentation and what cases of sound instrumentation do you know?

2. What graphic EM are used in different functional styles and genres?

3. What is graphon? Define its stylistic functions in different genres of literature.

4. Analyse different cases of alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia: В.А. Кухаренко. A Book of Practice in Stylistics. ex. 1. p. 13 – 14, Seminars in Style. Ex.2, p. 108.

5. Analyze different cases of graphon and graphic EM: В.А. Кухаренко. А Book of Practice. Ex. 2, pp. 14 – 15; ex. 4, p.16, ex. 5-6, pp. 16-17. Seminars in Style, ex. 1, p. 102, ex. 4, p. 109, ex.5, p. 110.

6. What are the main cases of morphemic foregrounding?

7. What are the functions of morphemic repetition?

8. How are morphemes foregrounded in occasional words?

9. What is the difference between occasional words and neologisms?

10. State the function of different cases of morphemic repetition: ex. 1, p. 19 (A Book of Practice).

11. Analyse the morphemic structure and the stylistic functions of occasional words: ex.2, p. 21 (A Book of Practice in Stylistics)

12. Discuss different cases of morphemic foregrounding: ex. 3, p. 21 (A Book of Practice in Stylistics)

Task 1

Explain the usage of graphon and graphic EM in the examples from modern English and American literature.

Task 2

Comment on different graphic EM and define their stylistic function:

1. “You mean you’d like it best.” Little Jon considered. “No, they would, to please me.” (Galsworthy - Awakening)

2. Olwen (smiling at him affectionately): You are a baby. … Gordon (furious, rising and taking step forward): You are a rotter, Stanton. (J.B. Pristley).

3. He missed our father very much. He was s-l-a-i-n in North Africa. (S.)

4. “Hey,” he said “is it a goddamn cardroom? Or a latrine? Attensh –HUT! Da-ress right! DHRESS!” (J.)

5. “We’ll teach the children to look at things. Don’t let the world pass you by, I shall tell them. For the sun, I shall say, open your eyes for that laaaarge sun…..”(A.W.)

Task 3

Comment on the usage and stylistic function of graphic EM and graphon in the newspaper poster and TV advertising:

1. “Pik-kwik Shop”.

2. “Follo me”.

3. “Best Jeans for this Jeaneration”.

4. Weather forecast for today: Hi 59, Lo 32, wind lite.

5. Follow our advice: Drinka Pinta Milka Day.

Task 4

Analyze the passage paying special attention to the stylistic function of graphic EN and SD:

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –

The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –

The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,

And Yesterday, or centuries before?

The Feet, mechanical, go round –

A Wooden way

Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –

Regardless grown,

A Quarts contentment, like a stone –

This is the Hour of Lead –

Remembered, if outlived,

As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow

First – Chill – the Stupor – then the letting go – (E. Dickinson)

Task 5

Comment on the stylistic function of different cases of morphemic repetition in the following examples:

1. “The precious twins – untried, unnoticed, undirected – and I say it quiet with my hands down – undiscovered”. (S.)

2. “The procession then re – formed; the chairmen resumed their stations; and the march was re – commenced.” (D.)

3. “…it’s all the chatting and the feeding and the old squiring and the toeing and froing that runs away with the time.” (K.A.)

4. Young Blight made another great show of changing the volume, taking up a pen, sucking it, sipping it, and running over previous entries before he wrote. As, “Mr. Alley, Mr. Balley, Mr. Calley, Mr. Dalley, Mr. Falley, Mr. Galley, Mr. Halley, Mr. Lalley, Mr. Malley. And Mr. Boffin. (Dickens)

5. Laughing, crying, cheering, chaffing, singing, David Rossi’s people brought him home in triumph. (H.Caine)

Task 6

Analyze the morphemic structure and the purpose of creating the occasional words in L.Carrol’s parody poem:

THE MANLET

L.Carrol, 1967

In statue the manlet was dwarfish –

No big burly Blunderbore he;

And he wearily gazed on the crawfish

His wifelet had dressed for his tea.

“Now reach me, sweet Atom, my gunlet,

And hurl the old shoelet for luck.

Let me hie to the bank of the runlet,

And shoot thee a Duck!”…

On he speeds, never wasting a wordlet,

Though thoughtllets cling, closely as wax,

To the spot where the beautiful birdlet

So quietly quacks…

Where the Grublet is sought by the Froglet,

Where the Frog is persued by the Duck;

Where the Ducklet is chased by the doglet –

So runs the world’s Luck!

Task 7

Make a complete stylistic analysis of phonetic and morphological EM in the poem “Tarantella” and point out their stylistic relevance.

Tarantella

Hillarie Belloc (1870-1953)

Do you remember an Inn,

Miranda?

Do you remember an Inn?

And the tedding and the spreading

Of the straw for a bedding,

And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees?

And the wine that tastes of tar?

And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteers

(Under the dark of the vine verandah)?

Do you remember an Inn, Miranda?

Do you remember an Inn?

And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteers

Who hadn’t got a penny,

And who weren’t paying any,

And the hammer at the doors and the Din?

And the Hip! Hop! Hap!

Of the clap

Of the hands to the twirl and the swirl

Of the girls gone chancing,

Glancing,

Dancing,

Backing and advancing,

Snapping of the clapper to the spin

Out and in-

And the Ting, Tong, Tang of the guitar!

Do you remember an Inn, Miranda?

Do you remember an Inn?

Never more;

Miranda,

Never more.

Only the high peaks hoar:

And Aragon, a torrent at the door,

No sound

In the walls of the Halls where falls

The tread

Of the feet of the dead to the ground.

No sound:

Only the boom

Of the far Waterfall like Doom.