FUNCTIONAL STYLISTICS Functional stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies functional varieties of the literary language determined by specific spheres and aims of communication. In modern society every person constantly finds himself in regularly recurring situations typical of the given culture‚ in which he has to play a definite social role‚ i.e. to behave according to norms accepted in the given society for such situations. One of the manifestations of a social role of
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Kazmina J. In-41 Stylistic analysis. On the day that E.M. Forster died by A.S. Byatt. The text I would like to analyze is “On the day that E.M. Forster died” written by A.S. Byatt. Dame Antonia Susan Duffy‚ DBE‚ known as A. S. Byatt is an English novelist‚ poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008‚ The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. This text is social genre because the author describe social‚ professional spheres of life with the help of such vocabulary
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Stylistic Devices 1 IMAGERY Simile (Vergleich): An explicit comparison between two things which are basically quite different using words such as like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. (Wordsworth) Metaphor (Metapher): A comparison between two things which are basically quite differ ent without using like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is like another‚ a metaphor says that one thing is another. (adj. metaphorical) All the
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Stylistic Analysis of “ I Have A Dream” “All the fun is in how you say a thing.” Robert Frost’s words give us a perfect explanation about why the style is so important in an article. According to Alan Warner‚ style is a way of writing‚ a manner of expressing one’s thoughts and feelings in words. A same meaning can have different effects on its readers by being put in different ways. This article is to take the famous speech of Martin Luther King as an example to analyze and discuss its stylistic
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Semantic and Lexical Relation By Kifah Talib Tawfiq This seminar consists of the following paragraphs 1-Introduction 2- Definition of the terms (Semantic and lexical) 3- The relation between the two terms 4-Conclusion 1- Introduction What is Semantics and lexical? 1- What is semantics? Semantics is the study of meaning. It is a wide subject within the general study of language. An understanding of semantics is essential to the study of language acquisition (how language
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5. A. The following sentences may be lexically or structurally ambiguous‚ or both. Provide paraphrases showing you comprehend all the meanings. a. We laughed at the colourful ball. Meaning 1: We laughed at the colourful ball that was held. Meaning 2: We were at the colourful ball and we laughed. b. He was knocked over by the punch. Meaning 1: He was knocked over by the strong liquor. Meaning 2: He was knocked over after he was punched. c. The police were urged to stop drinking by the fifth. Meaning
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of the Pickwick club (Dickens) ” belongs to…style: alliteration The sentence “The camp‚ the pulpit and the low For rich man’s sons are free” The sentence “The cock is covering‚ the stream is flowing ” belongs to…style: parallelism The stylistic device in the sentence "There was a town down there‚ as flat as a flannel- The word-combinations “peopled desert‚ populous solitude‚ proud humility ” to…style : zeugma What is slang word?
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that is theoretically maintained unchanged In recent years considerable attention has been paid to stylistic variation in linguistic description. Variation which used to be described as free has lately been described as fitting within identifiable linguistic or social parameters. Studying stylistic variation is the main focus of this project which is based on the observation that language variation depends not only on the social
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PART I INTRODUCTION I. GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE AND STYLISTICS Stylistics‚ sometimes called l i n g u o - s t y 1 i s t i c s‚ is a branch of general linguistics. It has now been more or less definitely outlined. It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks: a) the investi-gation of the inventory of special language media which by their ontol-ogical features secure the desirable effect of the utterance and b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the
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The causes of semantic changes In comparison with classifications of semantic change the problem of their causes appears neglected. Opinions on this point are scattered through a great number of linguistic works and have apparently never -been collected into anything complete. And yet a thorough understanding of the phenomena involved .in semantic change is impossible unless the whys and wherefores become known. This is of primary importance as it may lead eventually to a clearer‚ interpretation
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