Theme 25. Archaic, Obsolescent and Obsolete words Study of the stages in the aging process of words, difference between archaic and
obsolete words and its functions. Archaic words and archaic proper. Obsolescent
words.
Theme 26. The main linguistic peculiarities of the belles-lettres style. Meaning of the belles-letters. Peculiarities of the belles-letters style. Main stylistic
function of neologisms in the belles-letters style. Substyles of belles-letters.
Theme 27. The main linguistic peculiarities of the newspaper style Trace the historical development and linguistic characteristics of the newspaper
style. Peculiarities of translation of newspaper style .
Theme 28. The main linguistic peculiarities of the scientific style Analyze language features of scientific style, though different researches may
outline some other ones or just additional to the ones named. Lexical Features of
Scientific Prose. Foot-notes. The use of various logical connectors / linkers.
Theme 29. Claude Shanon’s scheme of communication and its modifications Analyze Claude Shanon model of communication. Elements of communication
according to Shanon model of communication.
Theme 30. Stylistic use of structural meaning Functions of structural meaning. Rhetorical Question and its structural meaning.
Litotes. A variant of litotes.
Theme 31. Theory of Stylistics. Affective stylistics Study of the fields of stylistics. Stylistics theory. Chomsky theory. Examine the
affective stylistics.
Theme 32. Schema theory Study of the structure of schema theory, including aims, general principles and
key concepts. Examples demonstrating schemata in discourse processing.
Theme 33. Text World theory (TWT) Analyzing the text world theory, including aims, general principles and key
concepts. Study of the origin of text world theory. Textuality in discourse
analysis.
