Comp Stylistics L3!20!21
Comp Stylistics L3!20!21
Comp Stylistics L3!20!21
in the
English and Ukrainian Languages
01.09.2020
by Inna A. Redka (PhD in Linguistics)
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In focus
1. Notions of stylistic opposition: expressive means – stylistic device
2. Morphemic foregrounding
3. Morphological expressive means and stylistic devices
4. Stylistic potential of English and Ukrainian
a) nouns
b) adjectives
c) pronouns
d) adverbs
e) verbs
Notions of stylistic opposition:
expressive means – stylistic device
stylistic opposition
• opposition = being the other of a pair
(Merriam-Webster dictionary)
murderer :: killer
destroyer
slaughterer
slayer
butcher
cutthroat
spiller of blood
assassin
Маркована одиниця стилістичної
опозиції
жити – жить
питає – пита
беремо – берем
ходімо – ходім
несіть – несіте
досягти – досягнути
замінювати – заміняти
• випив молоко – випив молока
• найвужчий – найбільш вузький
• синові – сину
• тая – та
• знає – зна
• їх – їхній
• писатиму – буду писати – напишу
• зелений – зелен
expressive means and stylistic device
• expressive means (зображувально-виражальний засіб)
is a marked member of a stylistic opposition which has an invariant
form in language,
e.g. a chance :: a golden opportunity
morpheme
• is the smallest meaningful unit within a word
• can be foregrounded by means of repetition
e.g. We were sitting in the cheapest of all the cheap restaurants that
cheapen that very cheap and noisy street, the Rue des Petits Champs
in Paris.
morphemic foregrounding
•“She unchained, unbolted and unlocked the
door.”
e.g.: The blond I had been dancing with’s name was Bernice – Crabs or
Krebs.
(J. Salinger)
stylistic potential of English nouns
The category of definiteness / indefiniteness is marked analytically –
by the articles.
The use of the definite / indefinite article with proper names creates
an evaluative connotation – positive / negative, cf:
“Who is he?” I said. “And why does he sit always alone, with his back
to us, too?”
(K. Mansfield, “The Baron”)
stylistic potential of English pronouns
archaic pronouns thee, thou, thy are used
• to create a formal / solemn atmosphere;
• to render high degree of poeticality:
And the young Fisherman laughed: “Thou hast done me no evil, but I
have no need of thee,” he answered.
(O.Wilde, “The Fisherman and His Soul”)
stylistic potential of English pronouns
Stylistic devices based on transposition of pronouns
“In the afternoon the chairs came, a whole big cart full of little gold
ones with legs in the air. And then the flowers came. When you stared
down from the balcony at the people carrying them the flower pots
looked like funny awfully nice hats nodding up the path”
(K.Mansfield, “Sun and Moon”)
stylistic potential of English adverbs
• neutral adverbs
(greatly, highly, quite)