CONTENTSFOREWORD 2 PRELIMINARY REMARKS 3 CHAPTER I. ICAL LEVEL. MORPHOLOGICAL LEVEL 13 Instrumenting. Craphon.Graphical Means 6 Morphemic Repetition. Extension of Morphemic Valency .11 CHAPTER II. LEXICAL LEVEL . 14 Word and its Semantic Structure .14 Connotational Meanings of a Word .14 The Role of the Context in the Actualization of Meaning .14 Stylistic Differentiation of the Vocabulary 16 Literary Stratum of Words. Colloquial Words 16 Lexical Stylistic Devices .23 Metaphor. Metonymy.
Synecdoche. Play on Words. Irony. Epithet 23 Hyperbole. Understatement. Oxymoron. 23 CHAPTER III. SYNTACTICAL LEVEL 38 Main Characteristics of the Sentence. Syntactical SDs. Sentence Length 38 One-Word Sentences. Sentence Structure.
Punctuation. Arrangement of Sentence Members. Rhetorical Question. Types of Repetition. Parallel Constructions. Chiasmus. Inversion. Suspense, Detachment. Completeness of Sentence Structure. Ellipsis. One-Member Sentences. Apokoinu Constructions. Break. Types of Connection. Polysyndeton. Asyndeton. Attachment Lexico-Syntactical Stylistic Devices. Antithesis. Climax. Anticlimax. Simile. Litotes. Periphrasis. CHAPTER IV. TYPES OF NARRATION 57 Author s Narrative. Dialogue.
Interior Speech. Represented 57 Speech. Compositional Forms 57 CHAPTER V. FUNCTIONAL STYLES 61 Colloquial vs. Literary Type of Communication. Oral vs 61 Written Form of Communication 61 SUPPLEMENT 1 .69 Samples of Stylistic Analysis. SUPPLEMENT2 .71Extracts for Comprehensive Stylistic Analysis LIST OF AUTHORS WHOSE TEXTS WERE USED IN EXERCISES FOREWORD Seminars in Style is a book of practice which can be used alongside or after the theoretical course of English Stylistics.
Its aim is to help students acquire and use the knowledge and techniques necessary for the stylistic analysis of a text, i.e. find and interpret language phenomena of different levels of the language structure, which carry some additional information of the emotive, logical or evaluative types, all serving to enrich, deepen and clarify the text. The book is divided into five chapters, each one containing a brief theoretical survey, questions checking the students comprehension, and exercises.
The latter are excerpts of varying length taken from the prose of XIX-XX cc. written in English. The length and complexity of the fragments for analysis grow by the end of each chapter. A sample of analysis is offered at the end of the book. There are also texts for comprehensive stylistic analysis presupposing understanding of and free orientation in the material of the previous chapters.
The book ends with a list of the authors, whose works have been used for illustration.
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CHAPTER II. LEXICAL LEVEL
Word and its Semantic Structure.
Connotational Meanings of a Word.
The Role of the Context in the Actualization of Meaning. The list and specifications of connotational meanings vary with differ... a concrete speech act that identifies and actualizes each one. Just pop into the scullery and get me something to stand this on. No, just pop your coat on and you re fine.
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