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Classification of Lexical Stylistic Devices
The interaction of
different types of
lexical meaning.
Intensification of a
feature
Peculiar use of
set expressions
a)
primary dictionary
and contextually
imposed meanings
(metaphor,
metonymy, irony);
b) primary and
derivative logical
meanings (zeugma
and pun);
c)
logical and emotive
(epithet, oxy’moron);
d) logical and
nominative
(antonomasia);
simile,
hyperbole,
periphrasis
clichés,
proverbs,
epigram,
quotations
A metaphor is a relation between the dictionary and
contextual logical meanings
based on the affinity or similarity of certain properties or features of the two
corresponding concepts.
Metonymy is based on a different type of relation between the dictionary and
contextual
meanings, a relation based not on affinity, but on some kind of association
connecting the two concepts which these meanings represent on a proximity
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Also, the wide variety of poetic œuvres certainly calls for cross-validations of
findings with different text material and in different languages—including prose as
well as everyday written and spoken language.
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Further, also the choice of textual
measures could still be extended—for example,
integrating morphemic and
syntactic text levels—and refined—for example in terms of the inter-lexical
measures. The merit of this study might thus just lie in having made first
explorative steps toward investigating—or having opened initial insights on—text-
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Alemi M, Tajeddin Z (2020) Reflection and good language teachers. In: Griffiths C, Tajeddin Z (eds)
Lessons
from good language teachers. pp. 41–53
Irony is a stylistic device also based on the simultaneous realization of two logical
meanings - dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings are in opposition to each
other.
Simile. The intensification of some feature of the concept is
realized in a device called
simile. Similes set one object against another regardless of the fact that they may be
completely alien to each other.
Periphrasis - is a round - about way of speaking used to name some object or
phenomenon. Longer-phrase is used instead of a shorter one. Some periphrasis are
traditional.
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