Stylistic classification of the english vocabulary

CONTENTS

1. The Object and the Aims of Stylistics

2. Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices

Types of Lexical Meaning

a) Logical Meaning

b) Emotive Meaning

с) Nominal Meaning

STYLISTIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

1. General Considerations

2. Neutral, Common Literary and Common Colloquial Vocabulary

a) Neutral Words

b) Common Literary Words

c) Common Colloquial Words

3. Special Literary Vocabulary

a) Terms

b) Poetic Words

c) Archaic Words

d) Barbarisms and Foreign Words

e) Neologisms

4. Special Colloquial Vocabulary

a) Slang

b) Jargonisms

c) Professionalisms

d) Dialectal words

e) Vulgar words

PHONETIC EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES

General Notes

a) Onomatopoeia

b) Alliteration

c) Rhyme

d) Rhythm

LEXICAL EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES

A. Interaction of Different Types of Lexical Meanings

1. Interaction of Dictionary and Contextual Logical Meanings

a) Metaphor

b) Metonymy

c) Irony

2. Interaction of Primary and Derivative Logical Meanings

a) Polysemy

b) Zeugma and Pun

3. Interaction of Logical and Emotive Meanings

a) Interjections

b) The Epithet

c) Oxymoron

4. Interaction of Logical and Nominal Meanings

Antonomasia

В. Intensification of a Certain Feature of a Thing or Phenomenon

a) Simile

b) Periphrasis

c) Euphemism

d) Hyperbole

С. Stylistic Use of Set Expressions