Stylistic semasiology
STYLISTIC SEMASIOLOGY OF THE ENGUSH LANGUAGE
(Методичні вказівки до семінарських та практичних занять зі стилістики англійської мови для студентів IV курсу. (Видання 2) . Уклад. Воробйова О.П., Бойцан Л.Ф., Ганецька Л.В. та інш. - К.: Вид. центр КНЛУ, 2001. - С. 28-33.)
1. Semasiology is a branch of linguistics which studies semantics or meaning of linguistic units belonging to different language levels. Lexical semasiology analyses the meaning of words and word combinations, relations between these meanings and the changes these meanings undergo. Stylistic semasiology is concerned only with those semantic relations and changes which form the basis of EM and SD.
The subject-matter of stylistic semasiology is stylistic semantics, i.e. additional meanings of a language unit which may be given rise to by:
1) the unusual denotative reference of words, word-combinations, utterances and texts (EM); or
2) the unusual distribution of the meanings of these units (SD). Semasiological EM are figures of substitution, i.e. different means of secondary nomination. The latter is based on the usage of existing words and word-combinations to denote new notions or to give a new name to the already known objects. Secondary nomination is not completely arbitrary, it is carried out according to certain principles or rules. Most commonly the transfer of a name occurs: 1) on the basis of similiarity or likeness (real or imaginary) of two objects belonging to different areas of reality, which are regarded as such due to individual or collective perception (rat-spy, rabbit- coward);
2) on the basis of contiguity or some logical (usually objective) relations or associations between different objects (chicken – food, hat – man in a hat). Figures of substitution are secondary nomination units which either exist in the language as a system or are formed in speech on the basis of recurrent patterns. Secondary nomination units or tropes stand in
(Методичні вказівки до семінарських та практичних занять зі стилістики англійської мови для студентів IV курсу. (Видання 2) . Уклад. Воробйова О.П., Бойцан Л.Ф., Ганецька Л.В. та інш. - К.: Вид. центр КНЛУ, 2001. - С. 28-33.)
1. Semasiology is a branch of linguistics which studies semantics or meaning of linguistic units belonging to different language levels. Lexical semasiology analyses the meaning of words and word combinations, relations between these meanings and the changes these meanings undergo. Stylistic semasiology is concerned only with those semantic relations and changes which form the basis of EM and SD.
The subject-matter of stylistic semasiology is stylistic semantics, i.e. additional meanings of a language unit which may be given rise to by:
1) the unusual denotative reference of words, word-combinations, utterances and texts (EM); or
2) the unusual distribution of the meanings of these units (SD). Semasiological EM are figures of substitution, i.e. different means of secondary nomination. The latter is based on the usage of existing words and word-combinations to denote new notions or to give a new name to the already known objects. Secondary nomination is not completely arbitrary, it is carried out according to certain principles or rules. Most commonly the transfer of a name occurs: 1) on the basis of similiarity or likeness (real or imaginary) of two objects belonging to different areas of reality, which are regarded as such due to individual or collective perception (rat-spy, rabbit- coward);
2) on the basis of contiguity or some logical (usually objective) relations or associations between different objects (chicken – food, hat – man in a hat). Figures of substitution are secondary nomination units which either exist in the language as a system or are formed in speech on the basis of recurrent patterns. Secondary nomination units or tropes stand in