Стилистика английского языка

Seminar 4 Points for discussion Expressive resources of the language 1.      Classification of   EM and SDs, the principles of forming and their role -          phonetic EM and SDs -          lexical EM and SDs -          syntactical EM and SDs 2.      lexical EM and SDs. Interaction of different typed of lexical meaning: dictionary, contextual, transferred meanings: -          metaphor -          metonymy -          irony II. Practice session Assignments 1.      Kukharenko   V.A. Metaphor – ex. 1 p. 39;                         ...

TROPES AND FIGURES OF SPEECH The basic linguo-stylistic concepts – tropes and figures of speech have always existed in the European philological tradition. Tropes are based on the principle of a transferred meaning, when a word or a combination of words is used to denote an object which is not usually correlated with this word. The stylistic effect of figures of speech is based on the principle of unusual arrangement of linguistic units, unusual construction or extension of the utterance. Stylistics focuses on the expressive properties of linguistic units, their functioning and interaction in conveying ideas and emotions in a certain text or communicative context. Stylistics interprets the opposition or clash between the contextual meaning of a word and its denotative meaning. It helps to create images, as it can reflect the surrounding world by naming, qualifying and evaluating it. Image as a linguistic notion, is mainly built on such lexico-scmantic stylistic devices c...