- •Вінниця – 2008 seminar 7 revision
- •I. Think of the causes originating graphon (young age, a physical defect of speech, lack of education, the influence of dialectal norms, affectation, intoxication, carelessness in speech, etc.):
- •II. Discuss the following cases of morphemic foregrounding:
- •III. Identify the type and the functions of literary words.
- •V. Comment on the usage of phraseology
- •VI. Analyse the following sentences and classify syntactical em and sDs:
- •Seminar 8 functional styles in modern english Points for Discussion
- •Recommended Literature
- •Recommended Literature
- •Optional Literature
- •Basic notions
- •Practical assignment
- •In the excerpts that follow find figures of substitution used. Explain their stylistic functions in the given excerpts:
- •He acknowledged an early-afternoon customer with a be-with-you-in-a-minute nod. (d.Uhnak).
- •Seminar 10 stylistic semasiology of the english language (continued) Discussion Points
- •Recommended Literature
- •Optional Literature
- •Basic notions
- •Practical assignment
- •In the excerpts that follow find figures of combination used. Explain their stylistic functions in the given excerpts:
- •Professor – What kept you out of class yesterday – acute indigestion?
- •– No, I almost froze.
- •Additional Activities
- •I. Here is a list of 10 oxymorons. See how many you can match to make the correct phrases:
- •II. Some riddles are funny because they are puns. Puns are made with words that have double meaning. A pun doesn’t make sense until you know both meanings of the word.
- •Seminar 11 basic notions of the text Discussion Points
- •Recommended Literature
- •Practical assignment
- •S. Maugham. Looking back on eighty years
- •H.W. Longfellow the rainy day
- •Seminar 12 author’s image as a literary text category Discussion Points
- •Recommended Literature
- •Practical assignment.
- •In the excerpts that follow, define:
- •The narrative perspective (focalization)
- •The type of narrator.
- •Seminar 13 practical class: stylistic analysis of the text suggested pattern of linguo-stylistic analysis
- •General character of the text
- •Type of narrative and narrator.
- •Characters and type of characterization:
- •Stylistic effect and means employed:
- •Summing up – synthesis of the text.
- •Recommendations for the stylistic analysis of a text
- •Narratological glossary
Professor – What kept you out of class yesterday – acute indigestion?
Student – No, a cute engineer.
A cynic was standing in front of an exhibition of modern picture labelled “Art objects”.
“Well“, he announced to the attendant in charge, “I should think Art would object, and I can’t say that I blame it.”
– Did you hit a woman with a child?
– No, sir, I hit her with a brick (Th.Smith).
After a while and a cake he crept nervously to the door of the parlour (A.Tolkien).
When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
“His sins were scarlet, but his books were read” (H.Belloc).
– I’ve spent last summer in a very pretty city of Switzerland.
– Berne?
– No, I almost froze.
There is only one brand of tobacco allowed here – “Three nuns”. None today, none tomorrow, and none the day after (Br.Behan).
On a raw Wednesday morning, in a few ill-chosen words, she told the cook that she drank. She remembered the scene afterwards as vividly as though it had been painted in her mind by Abbey. The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went (Saki).
– Is life worth living?
– It depends on the liver.
Additional Activities
I. Here is a list of 10 oxymorons. See how many you can match to make the correct phrases:
old opposition
pretty unseen
civil news
small war
deafening secret
industrial vacation
sight fortune
working park
open ugly
loyal silence
II. Some riddles are funny because they are puns. Puns are made with words that have double meaning. A pun doesn’t make sense until you know both meanings of the word.
Read the riddles below and then write the two meanings of each underlined word.
Example: A: When is a car not a car?
B: When it is turning into a driveway.
Turning into means: 1. Becoming, transforming;
2. Turning to enter.
1. A: When did the blind man see?
B: When he picked up his hammer and saw.
2. A: What has four legs and flies?
B: A picnic table.
3. A: When is a piece of wood like a king?
B: When it is a ruler.
4. A: Why does a cow wear a bell?
B: Because its horns don’t work.
5. A: Who raises things without lifting them?
B: A farmer.
Prompters:
hard, curved bones on the outside of a cow’s head;
moves in the air;
a tool for cutting wood;
a loud instrument for making noise;
insects that disturb picnics;
past of ‘see’;
to grow vegetables;
a straight piece of wood for measuring;
the leader of a country;
to elevate, to move smth higher.
III. Some puns are made with homonyms – words that sound the same but are spelled differently. These puns are not so funny in writing. You need to say them out loud in order to understand them completely.
Read these riddles out loud and then write the two meanings of each underlined word:
Example: A: What is black and white and read all over?
B: A newspaper.
The two meanings are: ‘read” and ‘red”.
1. A: Why don’t people ever become hungry in the Sahara desert?
B: Because of the sand which is there.
2. A: Where is a sneeze usually pointed?
B: Achoo!
3. A: How do trains hear?
B: through their engineers.
4. A: When is a sailor not a sailor?
B: When he is ashore.
5 .A: Where does the sheep get its hair cut?
B: At the baa-baa shop.
6 .A: How do you spell ‘blind giant’?
B: ’blnd gant’. You spell it that way because a blind giant has no eyes.
7 .A: When is a door not a door?
B: When it is ajar.
8 .A: Where were the first potatoes fried?
B: In Greece.