Name of Khayitova Feruza Abdikhalikovna

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Seminar 1

Question 1. Write about subject matter of stylistics, its aim, object and relations
with other subjects.

Minimum word length: 500 words

Question 2. How are stylistic devices grouped?

Question 3. What is the functional style?

Question 4. Write about functional style

Question 5. What is norm?

Seminar 2

Question 6. What are the main subgroups of special literary words?

Question 7. What are the main characteristics of slang?

Question 8. What do you know of professional and social jargonisms?

Question 9. What do you know of the terms, their structure, meaning, functions?

Question 10.

I. Pay attention of the use of slang: what is the function of slang in emotive prose:
do you see the difference between slang and jargon words?

a. I’d have to soft-soap (to flatter) people whom I despised.

b. Sometimes he just blows away (disappears) for weeks at a time.

c. … and a son of quad (in prison)

d. I have spent a few years in choky (in prison).

II. Give your own examples on each group of colloquial layer.

III. Classify the following English and Uzbek words into different layers of the
vocabulary; define their function in the vocabulary system; consult the dictionary if
necessary:

Betwixt, coil, astrologer, goblet, abode, depicture, amity, equitable, teach in,
jeans, bonmot, beau, monde, hush-hush, hippy, disimprove, cleric, hereby, casque,
commix, neutron bomb, know-how, to commence, female, s’long, a kid.

Dast, hujra, gazeta, zaryad, da’vogar, platforma, askar, dastgir, bekvachcha,

mehrob, raskladushka, besh, dandon, sabo, bako, gulqaychi, auditoriya, bakovul,
gegemoniya, dovlamoq, vocal, itvachcha, bacha, kemping.

Seminar 3

Question 11.

Answer the questions

a. Bring the examples of EM on different levels of the language.

b. What is the linguistic essence of a SD?

c. What is a word? Bring different approaches to the definition of of a word.

b. Say about the types of lexical meaning of the word.

Question 12. Study the synonyms of the following words. Is their use identical?

Define which layer of the English vocabulary do they belong.

To say – tell, speak, relate, state, declare, break silence, open one’s mouth,
flying off, have one’s say

Girl – schoolgirl, miss, lassie, maid, nymph, made moiselle, minx, senorita,
young thing, filly, subded, junior miss, teenager, chick, bird, skirt, dame, babe.

Question 13. Give your own examples to the logical, emotive and nominal
meanings.

Question 14. Make the difference between a neutral and emotional colored variant
of the following utterances and translate them into Uzbek or Russian.

1. “The girl’s heart sank”. The girl’s heart went down.

2. The shopping public is getting more “choosey”. The shopping public is

getting more careful and cautions in choosing goods.

3. She was shaken with grief. She was shocked with grief.

4. What a sour face she has! Her face expresses her bad temper.

5. Give every man thin ear and few the voice. Keep your mouth shut and
your ears open. Listen to everybody but speak few.
 6. She broke his heart. She made him very sad.

7. I was thunder-struck. I was amazed.

8. She put all her eggs in one basket. She risked everything she had.

9. I wouldn’t like be in your shoes for a thousand pound. I wouldn’t like to be

in your position.

Seminar 4

Question 15.

Answer the questions:

1. What is the linguistic nature of the metaphor?

2. What are the sources of metonymy?

3. Speak about the functions of irony.

4. What types of meaning are involved in the origin of epithet?

5. What is the linguistic character of oxymoron?

6. On what meanings of a word is antonomasia based?

7. What are the stylistic functions of simile?

Question 16.

Give the definition of periphrases, euphemisms, hyperbole.

Question 17.

State the stylistic function and the structure of the following metaphor. Find the trite
and genuine metaphors.

Define the cases of sustained metaphors.

1. He heard the engine of the taxi die out along the street.
2. Then Mor craning his neck backwards, saw two dark shapes clinging to
the tower. A claw of fear contracted slowly about Mor’s heart.
3. He paused for his face clouded immediately.
4. His enormous hand could cup the back of her head in his palm.
5. We could hear the cheery chatter of our knives.
6. It was a hot day. The two windows opened upon the distant murmur of
London. The burning sun of July danced on the rosy and gray water of
the Thames.

Question 18.

Bring your own examples to each lexical SD.

Question 19.

Reveal the stylistic function of these SDs and translate sentences

1. The school was already trooping into the gym.

2. This naturally led to some pleasant chat about sciatica, fever, chills,
 lung diseases… and bronchitis.
3. It’s the light that makes her this so awfully beautiful and mysterious.
4. What a glorious mess!
5. We worked for five-and –twenty minutes, and did four potatoes.
Seminar 5.

Question 20. I. In the following excerpts find out expressive means and stylistic
devices. Explain their stylistic functions.

1. That’s a pretty well kettle of fish! A fine friend you are!

2. They think we have come by this horse in some dishonest manner. (Dickens
“Pickwick

Papers”)

3. What difference if it rained, hailed, blew, snowed, cycloned? (O’Henry)

4. “Bow to the board,” said Bumble. Oliver brushed away two or three tears that
were

lingering in his eyes; and seen no board but the table, fortunately bowed to that.
(Dickens)

5. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol’n on his wing my three and
twentieth

year! (Milton)

6. His mind was restless, but it worked perversely and thoughts jerked through his
brain like

the misfiring’s of a defective carburettor.

7. The hall applauded.

8. …Whether the Nymph Shall stain her Honour or her new Brocade Or lose her
Heart or

necklace at a Ball.

9. “And what did you think of our little town?” asked Zizzbaum, with the fatuous
smile of

the Manhattanite. (O’Henry)

10. The leaves fell sorrowfully. Floods of tears.

Question 21. II. Read the poem by S. Plath Daddy and make its stylistic analysis.

You do not do, you do not do

Any more, black shoe

In which I have lived like a foot

For thirty years, poor and white,

Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.

You died before I had time

Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,

Ghastly statue with one gray toe

Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic

Where it pours bean green over blue

In the waters off beautiful Nauset.

I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du.

Seminar 6

Question 22. Lexico-syntactical Stylistic Devices: Simile, Periphrasis .Key words: definition, main
types, functions.

2. What are the functions of phonetic elements?

3. Homonymic and synonymic affixes.
Question 23. Identify stylistic devices.

1.They were made for each other, sent into the world for each other, born for each other. 2. She
had her breakfast and her bath. 3. When my wife is angry, she is hot as an oven. 4. The doctor had a
cool warm mind. 4. The film drew tears from the hardest hearts

Seminar 7.

Question 26. Functional Styles in English

Key words: definition of functional style, main functions, linguistic features.
Question 25. Identify stylistic devices.

1. She has always been as live as a bird. 2. She unchained, unbolted, and unlocked
the door. 3. Mrs. Nork had a large home and a small husband. 4. When the food
came, they wolfed it down rapidly. 4. A Forsyte is not an uncommon animal. 5.
Fears burnt her cheeks.

Useful materials

LITERATURE:

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6. Мархасев И.Р., Зайцева В.А. Чтение и анализ газетных текстов = Newspaper

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