SEMINARS IN STYLISTICS (full-time students, 4th year) Seminar 1 Phonetic and Graphical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices

1. Onomatopoeia (Sound Imitation) 2. Alliteration and Assonance 3. Rhyme and Rhythm. Poetic metre. 4. Graphical EMs and SDs: graphon, italics, capitalization, spacing of graphemes Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 123 135, 252 - 254; Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics, pp. 13 - 22. Seminar 2 Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary 1. Neutral, Common Literary and Common Colloquial Vocabulary 2. Special Literary Vocabulary a) Terms b) Poetic and Highly Literary Words c) Archaic, Obsolescent and Obsolete Words d) Barbarisms and Foreignisms e) Literary Coinages (Neologisms and Nonce-Words) 3. Special Colloquial Vocabulary a) Slang b) Jargonisms c) Professionalisms e) Dialectal Words f) Colloquial Coinages Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics. - M.: Higher School, 1977, pp.70 - 122; Kukharenko V.A. Seminars in Stylistics. - M.: Higher School, 1986, pp. 29 46.

Seminar 3 I. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices SDs Based on Interaction of Different Type of Lexical Meaning:: 1. Metaphor and Personification 2.Metonymy and Synechdoche 3. Allusion 4. Antonomasia 5. Allegory 6. Irony Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 138 - 148, 164 - 166; Kukharenko V.A. Seminars in Stylistics, pp. 47 - 53, 59 - 64.

Seminar 4 II. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices 1. SDs Based on Polysemantic Effect: a) Zeugma b) Pun 2. SDs Based on Interaction of Logical and Emotive Meaning: a) The Epithet b) Oxymoron 3. SDs Based on Intensification of a Certain Feature: a) Simile b) Periphrasis c) Euphemism d) Hyperbole and meiosis Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 153 - 164; 166 - 177; Kukharenko V.A. Seminars in Stylistics, pp. 52 66, 108 117.. Seminar 5 I. Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices 1.The stylistic value of sentence length: one word sentences, complex sentences. 2.SDs based on unusual juxtaposition of different parts of the utterance: stylistic inversion, detached construction. 3.SDs based on repetition: anaphora, epiphora, framing, anadiplosis, synonymic repetition, polysyndeton, parallel construction, chiasmus. Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 191 - 216. Kukharenko V.A. Seminars in Stylistics, pp. 81 - 95. Seminar 6 II. Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices 1. SDs based on transposition of syntactic structures: questions in the form of statements, rhetorical questions, questions in the narrative, litotes. 2. Syntactic means of compression: ellipsis, apokoinu construction, asyndeton, aposiopesis. 3. Syntactic convergence: enumeration, syllepsis. 4. SDs which can enfold within a sentence, supra-phrasal unit or paragraph: antithesis, climax (gradation), anticlimax (retardation), suspense. Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 216 - 226; 231 - 236; 244 - 248; Kukharenko V.A. Seminars in Stylistics, pp. 87 - 107.

Seminar 7 Functional Styles of the English Language 1. Functional styles and varieties of the language. 2. The belles-lettres style:

a) the substyle of poetry; b) emotive prose; c) language of the drama. 3. Publicistic style. 4. Newspaper style. 5. Scientific prose style 6. The style of official documents. Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 35 41, 249 318. Kukharenko V.A. Seminars in Stylistics, pp. 6 11, 133 154. .. . . ., 2002, .316 370. Seminar 8 Essentials of Text Interpretation 1. Elements of fiction: plot, theme, message, setting, characters, mood. 2. Composition of a text. Types of narration. Description. Dialogue. Interior monologue. 3. Samples of stylistic analysis (Kukharenko pp. 151 154). Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 319 322. Kukharenko V.A. Seminars in Stylistics, pp. 123 132. .. . . ., 2002, .63 81. Seminar 9 Practice in Text Interpretation Texts for interpretation: Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics, Ex. 30, pp. 168 170 or Ex. 32, pp. 171 173.

Tasks for exams in Stylistics 1. Stylistics as part of general linguistics. The notion of style. Stylistics and pragmatics. Stylistics and sociolinguistics. 2. Language norm and stylistic norm. 3. Functional styles. Belles-lettres style. 4. Functional styles. Publicistic style. 5. Functional styles. Scientific style. 6. Functional styles. Newspaper style. 7. Functional styles. The style of official documents. 8. Spoken and written varieties of the language. 9. Phonetic symbolism. Phonetic stylistic devices: Onomatopoeia, Alliteration. Assonance. 10. Graphical expressive means. 11. Morphemic expressive means. The stylistic use of affixes. Morphemic repetition. 12. Morphological expressive means. The stylistic use of Noun categories (the Possessive case, number, the article). 13. Morphological expressive means. The stylistic use of pronouns and adjectives.

14. Morphological expressive means. The stylistic use of verbal categories. 15. Stylistics differentiation of the English vocabulary: neutral, common literary and common colloquial words. 16. Special literary words: terms, poetic words, archaisms, barbarisms, literary coinages. 17. Special colloquial words: slang, jargonisms, professionalisms, dialectal words, colloquial coinages. 18. Metaphor and personification. 19. Metonymy and synechdoche. 20. Allusion. Antonomasia. Allegory. 21. Irony and humour. 22. Zeugma. Pun. 23. Epithet. Types of epithets. 24. Oxymoron. Antithesis. 25. Simile. The components and types of simile. 26. Periphrasis. Euphemism. 27. Hyperbole and meiosis. Litotes. 28. Stylistic inversion. Detached construction. Parenthesis. 29. Parallel construction. Complete and partial parallelism. Chiasmus. 30. Types of repetition. 31. Enumeration. Syllepsis. 32. Climax. Anticlimax. Suspense. 33. Asyndeton. Polysyndeton. 34. Ellipsis. Apokoinu Construction. Aposiopesis. 35. Rhetorical questions. Question-in-the-narrative. Questions in the form of ststements. 36. Stylistic use of proverbs, sayings, epigrams, paradoxes. 37. Decomposition of phraseological units. 38. Represented speech, its characteristic features and functions in the text. 39. Elements of fiction. Plot, structure, theme, message, setting, characters, mood. 40. Composition of a text. Narration. Description. Direct Speech. Interior monologue.