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· Influence of borrowings (Зыкова И.В. … С. 108-109, Issues in English Philology … P. 35-41)
Seminar 11. Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary
Main layers (strata) of the English word-stock: the literary (formal) layer (stratum), the neutral layer, and the colloquial (informal) layer. The subgroups of the literary layer: common literary words; terms and learned words; poetic words; archaic words; barbarisms and foreign words; literary coinages and nonce-words. The subgroups of the colloquial layer: common colloquial words; slang; jargonisms; professionalisms; dialectal words; vulgar words; colloquial coinages. The Standard English vocabulary: the common literary, neutral and common colloquial words. Special literary (bookish) vocabulary and special (non-standard) colloquial vocabulary. Neologisms. Neologisms proper, semantic neologisms and transnominations.
Test Questions
1. What classes is the English vocabulary subdivided into with respect to functional styles?
2. What are the properties of stylistically neutral words?
3. Where are formal words used?
4. In what situations are informal words used?
5. What is a term? How are terms coined? What are their essential properties?
6. What are the main features of poetic words?
7. What is the difference between common colloquial words and slang?
8. What is the difference between a term and a professionalism?
9. Why is language prolific in coining new words?
10. What stylistic stratum do neologisms pertain to?
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