Functional styles

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;

                               Metonymy – ex. 2 p.40;

                               Irony – ex. 4 p. 47.

2.     Assignments for self-control: Kukarenko V.A.  -  p. 46 – 6 items; p. 49 – 5 items.

Recommended literature

1.     Galperin I.R. – Stylistics.

2.     Arnold I.V. – Stylistics of  the  English language.

3.     Kukharenko – A Book of practice in stylistics.

4.     Skrebnev U.V. -  Основы стилистики англ. яз. – М.2003.

5.     Znamenskaya T.A. – Stylistics of the English Language – M. 2007.

6.     Shakhovsky  V.I. – English Stylistics – M. 2008.

7.     Alexandrova O.V., Boldyreva L.V. – Introductio to Functional Anglistics – M. 1998.