Additional Literature

1. Самойленко А.С. Языковые свойства сленга // Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация: Сборник научных статей. Выпуск 2 / сост. и отв. ред. Л.В. Чалова; Поморский гос. ун-т им. М.В. Ломоносова. – Архангельск: Поморский университет, 2006. С. 73 – 77.

2. Скребнев Ю.М. Очерк теории стилистики. С. 96 – 108, 135 – 139.

3. Миньяр-Белоручева А.П. Англо-русские обороты научной речи: Практикум / А.П. Миньяр-Белоручева М.: Проспект-АП, 2004.

Practical Training № 4. Classification of English vocabulary

Plan

Questions

1. What is the connection between frequency and stylistic colouring of words?

2. What is the major division of words from the stylistic viewpoint?

3. What is the traditional stylistic classification of words?

4. What subdivision of supernutural (elevated) and subnuetral (degraded) words was suggested by professor Y.M. Skrebnev?

5. What kind of words does the elevated vocabulary comprise?

6. What are archaic words?

7. What are historical archaisms?

8. In what spheres of communication are bookish words used?

9. What is the difference between a borrowing and a foreign word (barbarisms)?

10. What words are referred to poetic diction?

Tasks: Comment on the following examples

a. «Nay, we question you not», said the burgher; «although hark ye – I say, hark in your ear – my name is Pavillon» (Scott).

b. Men of England, wherefore plough

For the lords who lay ye low?

Wherefore weave with toil and care

The rich robes your tyrants wear? (Shelley)

c. «… me thinks it might satisfy you that I am trustworthy» (Scott).

d. «Prithee, do me so much favour, as to inquire after my astrologer, Martinys Galeotti, and send him hither to me presently» (Scott).

e. The Lord giveth and He taketh away, Ridges thought solemnly (Mailer).

f. Mrs. Tribute ‘my deared’ everybody, even things inanimate, such as the pump in the diary (Deeping).

Literature

1. Арнольд И.В. Стилистика современного английского языка. Стилистика декодирования. М., 1990. С. 105 – 126.

2. Скребнев Ю.М. Очерк теории стилистики. С. 96 – 108, 135 – 139.

3. Skrebnev Y.M. Fundamentals of English Stylistics. М., 1994. С.55 – 82; 147 – 152.

4. Кузнец М.Д., Скребнев Ю.М. Стилистика английского языка. М., 1960. С. 42 – 66.

5. Galperin I.R. Stylistics. М., 1971. С. 123 – 158.