Theme 8. Linguastylistics and literary stylistics of the English language Linguastylistics and literary stylistics of the English language. Focus on
identifying expressive means and stylistic devices and their interpretation. Text
levels. Decoding stylistics.
Theme 9. Stylistic classification of the English vocabulary Explore the layers of English language: the literary, neutral and colloquial layers.
Jargonisms. Professionalism. Colloquial coinages. Vulgar and vulgarisms.
Theme 10. Text as a subject of stylistic study Study of the Linguistic choices, including graphological features, types of nouns,
verbs, adjectives used, lexico-semantic features and figures of speech. Clause
patterns. Cohesion devices.
Theme 11. Norm and deviation from the norm. Deviation from the “Norm” as method. Coherence as “Norm” as style. Text
analysis: Compositional/Cognitive. .
Theme 12. Functional Style of the English language Investigate the features of functional style. Most important majors of functional
style of English language. Substyles of functional style. The belles-lettres style, its
substyles and its peculiarities.
Theme 13. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices Investigate the lexical expressive means and stylistic devices. Periphrasis.
Euphemism. Hyperbole. The Cliché. Epigrams. Quotations. Interaction of
different types of lexical meaning.
Theme 14. Lexico-Syntactical Stylistic Devices Looking through the interaction of lexical meanings of words. Climax. Antithesis.
Litotes. Simile. The structure of periphrasis. Represented speech.
Theme 15. Syntactical Expressive Means and stylistic devices
Investigate rearrangement of a syntactical structure, peculiar use of lexical
meanings of syntactical structures. Inversion. Inversion in poetry. Detachment.
Parenthesis. Ellipsis. Break-in-the-narrative (aposiopesis). Parallelism.