Pick out any slang terms in these statements.




Practicе 2

Theme. Stylistic lexicology

 

Aims: to define the layers of lexicon in English; to define terms, poetic words, barbarisms, neologisms, jargonisms, professionalisms, dialectisms, idioms.

Plan

1. General considerations.

2. Neutral words and common literary words.

3. Special literary vocabulary: terms, poetic words, archaic words, bar­barisms and foreignisms, neologisms.

4. Common colloquial vocabulary.

5. Special colloquial vocabulary: slang, jargonisms, professionalisms, dia­lectal words, vulgar words.

6. Set expressions.

Literature recommended

1. Мороховский А. Н., Воробьева О. П. и др. Стилистика английс­кого языка. - К, 1991. - С. 93-136.

2. Арнольд И. В. Стилистика современного английского языка. -М., 1990.-С. 105-130.

3. Кузнец М. Д., Скребнев Ю. М. Стилистика английского языка. -Л., I960. - С. 44-64.

4. Galperin I. R. Stylistics. - Moscow, 1981. - P. 70-122.

5. Maltzev V. A. Essays on English stylistics. - Minsk, 1984. - P. 60-70.

6. 2. Ganetska L.V. Lexi-Marker: Modern English Lexicology in Tables, Figures, and Exercises.- K.: Ленвіт, 2004. – 96 с.

 

 

Assignments

Describe the type of vocabulary used in the following statements.

• At the seminar the professor will outline the assessment criteria and then give his paper.

• I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence commeth my help.

• Youth's trauma in blazing inferno. Heartbroken mother makes agonised plea.

• John Brown, Maple Leaf Cottage, Greenholme, Essex.

• What matters in life is honesty, trust, courage, and thrift. All these lead to happiness.

• This is a classic Burgundy, vintage 1989, with lots of finish.

Which of the following pairs are close synonyms?

• fabulous - fantastic

• dramatic - theatrical

• heavenly - celestial

• strength - power

• reverence - respect

• nervous - anxious

Pick out any slang terms in these statements.

• "He's won the lottery and got loads of dosh."

• "Give me lots of spuds with my dinner."

• "Put the kettle on, and we'll have a cup of Rosy Lee."

• "He squealed to the cops, and that put a spanner in the works."

• "The tea-leaves scarpered with all the moolah."

• "She's got big blue eyes and a nice pair of pins."

4. Define the stylistic value of each of the following words: 1) neutral; 2) common literary; 3) common colloquial; 4) spe­cial literary (specify); 5) special colloquial (specify):

1. leave, abandon, kick;

2. send packing, expel, give the axe, discharge;

3. free, dismiss, liberate, release;

4. associate, comrade, friend, buddy, china;

5. aerial, antenna, rabbit ears;

6. lodgings, accomodation, flat, digs;

7. phoneyness/ phoniness, hypocrisy;

8. conversation, chat, intercourse;

9. disposition, mood, spirit, guts, shade;

10. bad temper, depression, dumps, bate;

11. primate, monkey;

12. spring, prime;

13. quick, alive, quickie;

14. believe, accept, buy;

15. perjurer, story-teller, liar;

16. wits, comprehension, understanding, brains, smarts;

17. inform, acquaint, let know, put (someone) in the picture;

18. alluring, beautiful, drop-dead;

19. show up, materialize, come, appear;

20. physician, doc, doctor;

21. daddy, father, parent;

22. intelligent, clever, smart, highbrow, brainy;

23. welkin, sky, azure, empyrean;

24. misappropriate, defalcate, steal, pocket, cabbage;

25. eventide, twilight, evening;

26. eatables, eats, nourishment, food;

27. get, arrest, collar;

28. eclipse, darkening;

29. dayspring, dawn, morning;

30. Homo sapiens, humanity, people, flesh;

31. start, commence, begin;

32. die, kick the bucket, pass away, decease;

33. be crazy about, like;

34. infant, descendant, kid, child;

35. nipper, crook, thief;

36. continue, proceed, go on;

37. catty, malicious;

38. mischief, misconduct, acting up, monkey business;

39. villain, culprit, criminal;

40.money, currency, needful, dough, dibs;

5. Point out a neutral and a special literary word (med­ical term). Exchange them in their places and make adjustments for the second remark to sound logical then as well:

 

"Is the doctor treating her for nervousness?" - "Oh, dear, no. She's rich enough to have psychoneurosis."

 

6. Match the words with the Cockney slang equiva­lents:

1) north and south a) head

2) tit for tat b) teeth

3) rosie lee c) mouth

4) loaf of bread d) suite

5) dicky dirt e) wife

6) mince pies f) boots

7) whisle and hute g) eyes

6) plates of meat h) shirt

7) hampstead heath i) feet

8) trouble and strife j) tea

9) daisy roots k) hat

7. Choose the sentence that shows the meaning of the idiom in italics:

 

1. That was a slap in the face.

a)Someone hit me in the face.

b)Someone insulted me.

c) Someone complimented me.

2. John is wet behind the ears.

a) He didn't dry his ears.

b)He doesn't have much experience.

c) He hears well.

3. They don't see eye to eye.

a) They never look at each other.

b)They always wear dark sunglasses.

c) They don't agree with each other.

4. That car is on its last legs.

a) It only has one tire.

b)It needs a paint job.

c) It is about to break down completely.

8. Group the set expressions according to their con­notation: a) positive; b) negative:

to wash one's dirty linen in the public, to keep in the pin, to take leave of one's senses, to kick the bucket, to look like a thousand dollars, to call names, to lend a helping hand, to flog a dead horse, to miss the boat, to pull the wool over someone's eyes, leaves without figs, to bring home the bacon, a wet night, to bury the tomahawk, the iron in one's soul, alive and kicking.

9. Group separately phraseological units contain­ing: a) metaphor; b) metonymy:

the weaker vessel - женщина; all ears– очень внимательный; an old hand –опытный человек; old fox - старая лиса, хитрец; blue bonnet - шотландец; to count noses - считать голоса; queer fish - чудак; slow coach - туповатый, отсталый.

10. Point out set expressions, define their types and illustrate kinds of decomposition. Analyse all expressive means and stylistic devices which are used in the utterances. Com­ment on their stylistic functions:

1. The dirty floor had evidently been as long a stranger to the scrubbing-brush as to carpet or floor-cloth. (Ch. Dickens),

2. But he meant to do something. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen; he would prove his mettle. Off his own bat too. (R. Greenwood).

3. Somehow or other she had formed great faith in the stability of this Jack and now he seemed a Jack of both sides. (R. Blackmore).

4. Peter had been at great pains to fool them; but they seemed to him so easy to fool that his pains were wasted. (U. Sinclair).

5....when the young man casts sheep's eyes at the gel [=girl] every time she moves, and £ie gel is either singin' about the house or sittin' quiet as a mouse in a brown study - what do you think that means? (R. Alding­ton).

6. In 1866, Harper's Weekly wrote of President Andrew Jackson: 'He must know that they would willingly use him as a wedge to split the Union party, as a stalking horse to their own purposes...' (NLP).

7. There is not half enough of this type of propaganda today. We have all become so hard and practical that we are ashamed of painting the vision splendid - of showing glimpses of the promised land. (H. Pollitt).

8. Не told how murderers walk' d the earth beneath the curse of Cain. (OED).

9. She had an ally in the lion's mouth: a spy in the friend's camp; a faithful traitor! (J. Galsworthy).

10. Feel a fellow ought to do his bit. Once we set our hand to the plough, we got to keep on till we make a safe harbour. (S. Lewis).

11. That evening Chance, which visits the lives of even the best-invest-Forsytes, put a clue into Fleur's hands (J. Galsworthy).

12. Не had thrown his humanity into the gutter, he had betrayed the trust that men place in one another, and with his thirty pieces of silver he had bought... what had he bought? (J. Wain).

 



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