- •A guide to stylistics
- •Contents
- •Foreword
- •Section 1 Stylistics: Introduction into the Field. Cognitive Style. Functional Styles.
- •Chubby tots don’t always shed that baby fat
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- •10. Define the genre, the functional style and its specific characteristics in the following extracts.
- •11. Use the intensifier with each of the adjectives. The first two have been done as an example:
- •12. Complete the sentences using the adverbs below and a suitable adjective.
- •13. In spoken English, it's possible to emphasize certain parts of a sentence simply by using stress. Which words would you stress in the following sentences to emphasize the information in brackets?
- •Section 2 The Language of Literature as an Object of Stylistics.
- •1. Compare the neutral and the colloquial (or literary) modes of expression:
- •2. Link together the suitable pairs of words making a stylistic opposition:
- •3. A. Which of the following phrases would you use while commenting on someone's features to express a) respect b) amusement c) contempt?
- •4. Analyse the semantic structure of the following words:
- •5. State what connotative component(s) of lexical meaning the following words represent.
- •Section 3 Lexical Means of Expressiveness
- •1. Do a jigsaw task identifying examples of metonymy in the columns. Choose at least 5 cases of metonymy and explain why the original use of a word has turned into a metonymical one.
- •9. Analyse cases of metaphor into the components of its structure.
- •10. A. Identify the trope and its type in the following sentences:
- •11. Indicate the metonymy and the type of metonymical relations.
- •12. State the type and structure of the epithets.
- •13. What trope is used in the following examples?
- •14. A. Concentrate on cases of hyperbole and understatement.
- •15. Before analysing cases of irony look at this definition from a Dictionary of Literary Terms by g.A. Cuddon:
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- •16. Define the device used:
- •17. Discriminate between metaphor, simile and personification in the following examples:
- •18. Define the stylistic device and explain what the effect produced by it is based on.
- •19. Identify the tropes in the following Russian examples:
- •Section 4 Stylistic Phraseology. Stylistic Morphology.
- •1. Read the sentences and discuss different ways in which j. Galsworthy refreshes proverbs and sayings by violating phraseological units. What effect is gained by this?
- •2. Analyse various cases of play on words, indicate how it is created and what effect it adds to the utterance.
- •3. Analyse the structure and purpose of creating the author's neologisms:
- •4. Find out and explain the morphological and phraseological devices:
- •Section 5 Stylistic Syntax.
- •1. Specify on the ssm based on Compression.
- •2. Identify the ssm based on Recurrence.
- •3. Keep the conversation going using False Anadiplosis and the counterarguments to make the utterance complete.
- •4. Read the sentences in which the ssm grouped under Inversion are used. Define the type of the inversions.
- •5. Identify the ssm based on Transposition. Analyse the stylistic effect created by them.
- •6. Analyse the syntactic stylistic devices used in the following sentences:
- •Identify the lexical and syntactic stylistic means in the following examples. Specify the function performed by them.
- •8. Specify on all the stylistic devices employed by the authors in the following examples. Identify and analyse the stylistic effect of the devices used.
- •Section 6 Stylistic Phonetics.
- •1. Identify the phonetic stylistic means in the following examples and specify the function performed by them:
- •Section 7 Extracts for Comprehensive Stylistic Analysis.
- •More you can do Do the independent stylistic analysis of the following texts.
- •Exam issues
- •Reading matters in stylistics
МИНИСТЕРСТВо ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РФ
ГОУ ВПО «Тамбовский государственный университет
имени Г.Р. Державина»
Г.В. Расторгуева
A guide to stylistics
Методические рекомендации к курсу стилистики
для студентов высших учебных заведений,
обучающихся по специальности «зарубежная филология»
Тамбов 2011
Расторгуева Г.В., кандидат филологических наук, доцент.
Рецензенты:
Макеева М.Н., доктор филологических наук, профессор, заведующая кафедрой иностранных языков ТГТУ;
Милосердова Е.В., доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры немецкой филологии ТГУ им. Г.Р. Державина.
Расторгуева Г.В. A Guide to Stylistics / Методические рекомендации к курсу стилистики для студентов высших учебных заведений, обучающихся по специальности «зарубежная филология». Тамбов: Издательский дом ТГУ имени Г.Р. Державина, 2011. с.
Целью данного учебного пособия является расширение лингвистической компетенции студентов старших курсов специальности «зарубежная филология». Оно включает информацию обзорно-справочного характера о фонологических, лексических, грамматических и стилистических явлениях английского языка, нормах англоязычной культуры, а также о современных тенденциях в изучении проблем стилистики (когнитивной поэтики). Предлагаемые упражнения способствуют формированию навыков владения алгоритмом анализа художественного текста в единстве его формы и содержания, развитию профессионально-оценочных читательских умений, расширению общего лингвистического и культурологического кругозора студентов.
Contents
Foreword……………………………………………………….
Section 1……….………………………………………………..
Section 2……….………………………………………………..
Section 3……….………………………………………………..
Section 4……….………………………………………………..
Section 5……….………………………………………………..
Section 6……….………………………………………………..
Section 7……….………………………………………………..
More You Can Do………………………………………………
List of Authors…………………………………………………..
Exam Issues……………………………………………………..
Reading Matters in Stylistics……………………………………
Foreword
Dear students,
This book, I hope, will serve your double needs: it will ease your way into understanding complex ideas of stylistic analysis and serve introduction into language study.
Stylistic analysis or text interpretation is known to demand not only general understanding of ideas, but closer scrutiny of the context and details in such complicated entity as text. The book, therefore, provides you with some pieces of theory appertaining to the issues discussed (they go in parallel with the material of the lectures delivered) and is designed to stimulate your understanding more specific and specialized enquiry into explication du texte, thus to support the more academically oriented introduction to linguistics.
The textual substantiation is taken from literary and non-literary discourses just to show how stylistic analysis might be applied in social reading process. Your professional philologist’s skills will be needed for developing exposition of the central issues.
I have used different sources while compiling this book, you can see some of them to which you might apply for a more detailed information in the Reference sheet.
I wish you enjoyed the book.
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