Контрольная работа

Questions:
1. Give an outline of the stylistic differentiation of the national English vocabulary: neutral, literary, colloquial layers of words, areas of their overlapping. Describe literary and common colloquial strata of vocabulary, their stratification.
2. Speak about general literary words illustrating your elaboration with examples from nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose.
3. What are the main subgroups of special literary words? Where are they used and what stylistic effect do they produce?
4. What do you know of terms, their structure, meaning, functions?
5. What are the fields of application of archaic words and forms?
6. Can you recognize general colloquial words in a literary text? Where do they mainly occur?
7. What are the main characteristics of slang?
8. What do you know of professional and social jargonisms?
9. What connects the stock of vulgarisms and social history?
10. What is the place and the role of dialectal words in the national language? in the literary text?
11. To provide answers to the above questions find words belonging to different stylistic groups and subgroups:
a) in the dictionary, specifying its stylistic mark ("label");
b) in your reading material, specifying the type of discourse, where you found it – authorial speech (narration description, philosophising) or dialogue.
12. Be ready for Quiz II.
Practice:
I. Distinguish neutral, literary and colloquial words among the following groups of words:
A B C
1. currency
2. to talk
3. to chow down
4. to start
5. insane
6. spouse
7. to leave
8. geezer
9. veracious
10. mushy money
to converse
to eat
to commence
nuts
hubby
to withdraw
senior citizen
opens
emotional dough
to chat
to dine
to kick off
mentally ill
husband
to shoot off
old man
sincere
sentimental
II. What kind of adherent stylistic meaning appears in the otherwise neutral word FEELING?
1. I’ve got no feeling paying interest, provided that’s reasonable. (Shute)
2. I’ve got no feeling against small town life. I’d rather like it. (Shute)
III. To what stratum of vocabulary do the words in bold type in the following sentences belong stylistically? Provide neutral or colloquial variants for them:
1. I expect you’ve seen my hand often enough coming out with the grub. (Wagh)
2. She betrayed some embarrassment when she handed Paul the tickets, and a hauteur which subsequently made her feel very foolish. (Cather)
3. I must be off to my digs. (Waugh)
4. When the old boy popped off he left Philbrick everything, except a few books to Gracie. (Waugh)
5. He looked her over and decided that she was not appropriately dressed and must be a fool to sit downstairs in such togs. (Cather)
6. It was broken at length by the arrival of Flossie, splendidly attired in magenta and green. (Waugh)
IV. How does the choice of words in each case contribute to the stylistic character of the following passages? How would you define their functional colouring in terms of technical, poetic, bookish, commercial, dialectal, religious, elevated, colloquial, legal or other style? Make up lists of words that create this tenor in the texts given below.
1. Whilst humble pilgrims lodged in hospices, a travelling knight would normally stay with a merchant. (Rutherfurd)
2. Fo’ what you go by dem, eh? W’y not keep to yo’self? Dey don’ want you, dey don’ care fo’ you. H’ ain’ you got no sense? (Dunbar-Nelson)
3. They sent me down to the aerodrome next morning in a car. I made a check over the machine, cleaned filters, drained sumps, swept out the cabin, and refuelled. Finally I took off at about ten thirty for the short flight down to Batavia across the Sunda straits, and found the aerodrome and came on to the circuit behind the Constellation of K.L.M. (Shute)
4. We ask Thee, Lord, the old man cried, to look after this childt. Fatherless he is. But what does the earthly father matter before Thee? The childt is Thine, he is Thy childt, Lord, what father has