1. Analyze style in its different meanings. Dwell on the notion of style as the manipulation of variables.
2. Define stylistics, speak of its object of study. Characterize different branches of stylistics (lingua- and literary stylistics, comparative stylistics, stilo-statistics (computational stylistics), decoding stylistics).
3. Point out the relation of stylistics to other branches of linguistics. Give your examples to illustrate the difference.
4. Express your understanding of the norm and deviations. Comment on degrees of grammaticality by N. Chomsky. Supply examples of semi-marked structures from English, American and Russian poetry.
2 ә қ
қ: Informal styles. Stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary.
ә қң :
1. Speak on Informal Styles, their classification.
2. Characterize Literary Colloquial style. Supply examples.
3. Point out the features of Familiar Colloquial.
4. Speak on the stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary, give the classification
3 ә қ
қ: Peculiarities of different vocabulary groups. Connotations.
ә қң :
1. Speak on the peculiarities of different vocabulary groups; General Bookish Words.
2. Speak on Special Bookish Words:
5. Terms
6. Poetic Words
7. Archaic Words
8. Foreign Words and Barbarisms
3. Speak on Informal Words:
a) Colloquial Words
b) Slang (general and special)
c) Vulgarisms
d) Dialectisms
4. Give a full review of connotations.
4 ә қ
қ: Classification of expressive means. Descriptive tropes.
ә қң :
1. Speak on different approaches to the classification of expressive means.
2. Characterize lexical means of expressiveness. Dwell on metaphoric group.
a) Speak on different approaches in the theory of metaphor. Analyze definitions and give examples of metaphors from English and Russian literature.
b) Speak on different metaphoric types.
c) Define simile, speak on the difference between simile and logical comparison.
d) Differentiate between genuine and trite metaphors and similes. Give as many examples as possible of conventional similes and trite metaphors. Speak on cognitive metaphor and make use of Lakoffs book.
3. Analyze the structure and the semantics of an image.
4. Define the extended image.
5. Enumerate the functions of images. Prove your point by giving examples.
6. Speak on personification and apostrophe.
7. Characterize metonymic group.
a) Define metonymic group, speak on its types.
b) Speak on the opposition: metonymy:: metaphor.
c) Characterize synecdoche.
8. Dwell on mixed group:
a) Characterize the epithet. Speak on different types of epithet. Speak on the difference between logical attribute and epithet, on the effect of irradiation. Supply examples.
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b) Allegory, antonomasia.
5 ә қ
қ: Types of narration. Stylistic use of phraseology
ә қң :
1. Explain the notion of Represented / Non-Personal Direct Speech.
2. Speak on the difference between represented inner and represented uttered speech.
3. Analyze different planes of narration:
a) I-narration
b) the authors omniscient narration
c) centered consciousness/ limited third person point of view narration
4. Give a general review of the stylistic use of phraseology.
5. Speak on: a) clichés
b) proverbs
c) epigrams
d) allusions
e) quotations
6. Present the types of decomposition (violation) of phraseologisms.
6 ә қ
қ: Syntactical expressive means.
ә қң :
1. Characterize the syntactical stylistic devices based on the unusual arrangement of elements and the interplay of adjoining sentences (phrases):
a) inversion, its patterns and functions;
b) parallelism, its types;
c) chiasmus.
2. Dwell on the syntactical expressive means based on the peculiarities of connection and connectives:
a) detachment;
b) parcellation;
c) coordination instead of subordination;
d) gapsentence link.
3. Speak on the syntactical structures with some change in their semantic function:
a) rhetorical questions;
b) quasi-negative, quasi-imperative and quasi-interrogative structures.
7 ә қ
қ: Classification of functional styles. Formal styles
ә қң :
1. Supply the definition and give the general classification of functional styles. Explain the notions register, genre, and other language variations.
2. Speak on formal styles (general characterization).
3. Enumerate the distinctive features of scientific style, point out its functions. Explain the differences between the texts of exact and humanitarian sciences.
4. Point out the functions and the distinctive features of business (official) style, account for their choice to convey the functions. Speak on language differences in different sub-styles of business style.
5. Speak on the peculiarities of a business letter and give examples of different types of business letters. Imitate the style in writing a business letter.
6. Speak on the typical features of poetical style. Find examples to illustrate them (e.g. in the book by N. Diakonova).
8 ә қ
қ: Publicistic and Newspaper styles
ә қң :
1. Speak on publicistic style its functions and distinctive features.
2. Define the peculiarities of oratory.
3. Analyze Brutuss speech from W. Shakespeares Julius Ceasar.
4. Interpret Mark Antoniuss speech from W. Shakespeares Julius Ceasar.
5. Compose a public speech by imitating a piece of oratory.
6. Speak on Newspaper style, its substyles and language features
