Stylistic Functions of Grammar Categories and the Role of Transposition.
ransposition of lexico-grammatical classes of nouns.
Stylistic function of articles, genitive case, plural number.
Stylistic functions of different grammatical categories in different parts of speech.
1) Stylistic transposition of pronouns.
2) Adjectives, stylistic function of degrees of comparison.
3) Stylistic functions of verbal categories.
4) Stylistic functions of adverbs.
Style is less investigated on the morphological level than on any other one because very many scholars hold the opinion that stylistic connotations appear only when the use of grammatical phenomenon departs from the normative usage and functions on the outskirts or beyond the system of Standard language.
Nevertheless stylistic connotations don’t necessarily mean the violation of the normative speech patterns. They are based on different cases of transposition.
Transposition is the usage of different parts of speech in unusual grammatical meaning which breaks the usual correlation within a grammatical category and is used to express the speaker’s emotions and his attitude to the object of discussion. It is the shift from one grammatical class to another, controversy between the traditional and situational reference on the level of morphology. (I.V.A.)
1. Transposition of lexico-grammatical class (LGC) of NOUNS:
Transposition of nouns is based on the usage of nouns in unusual lexico-grammatical class (LGC), thus causing a stylistic effect. According to their usual LGC they are subdivided into:
Personal nouns (agents) (man, woman, children)
Living beings (birds, cats, dogs)
Collective nouns (mankind, peerage)
Material nouns (water, stone)
Abstract nouns (clarity, kindness), etc.
Transposition from one LGC to another causes expressive, evaluative, emotive and functional connotations. Thus transposition of personal nouns denoting animals to those denoting people causes metaphorization and appearance of zoo morphemes: ass, bear, beast and bitch. Pig, donkey,
Stylistic function of articles, genitive case, plural number.
Stylistic functions of different grammatical categories in different parts of speech.
1) Stylistic transposition of pronouns.
2) Adjectives, stylistic function of degrees of comparison.
3) Stylistic functions of verbal categories.
4) Stylistic functions of adverbs.
Style is less investigated on the morphological level than on any other one because very many scholars hold the opinion that stylistic connotations appear only when the use of grammatical phenomenon departs from the normative usage and functions on the outskirts or beyond the system of Standard language.
Nevertheless stylistic connotations don’t necessarily mean the violation of the normative speech patterns. They are based on different cases of transposition.
Transposition is the usage of different parts of speech in unusual grammatical meaning which breaks the usual correlation within a grammatical category and is used to express the speaker’s emotions and his attitude to the object of discussion. It is the shift from one grammatical class to another, controversy between the traditional and situational reference on the level of morphology. (I.V.A.)
1. Transposition of lexico-grammatical class (LGC) of NOUNS:
Transposition of nouns is based on the usage of nouns in unusual lexico-grammatical class (LGC), thus causing a stylistic effect. According to their usual LGC they are subdivided into:
Personal nouns (agents) (man, woman, children)
Living beings (birds, cats, dogs)
Collective nouns (mankind, peerage)
Material nouns (water, stone)
Abstract nouns (clarity, kindness), etc.
Transposition from one LGC to another causes expressive, evaluative, emotive and functional connotations. Thus transposition of personal nouns denoting animals to those denoting people causes metaphorization and appearance of zoo morphemes: ass, bear, beast and bitch. Pig, donkey,