SEMINARS IN STYLISTICS (full-time students, 4th year) Seminar 1 Phonetic and Graphical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices

1. Onomatopoeia (Sound Imitation) 2. Alliteration and Assonance 3. Rhyme and Rhythm 4. Graphical EMs and SDs: graphon, italics, capitalization, spacing of graphemes Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 123 - 135; Kukharenko V.A.A Book of Practice in Stylistics, pp. 10 - 18. Seminar 2 Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary 1. Neutral, Common Literary and Common Colloquial Vocabulary 2. Special Literary Vocabulary: a) Terms, b) Poetic and Highly Literary Words, c) Archaic, Obsolescent and Obsolete Words, d) Barbarisms and Foreignisms, e) Literary Coinages (Neologisms and NonceWords). 3. Special Colloquial Vocabulary: a) Slang, b) Jargonisms, c) Professionalisms, e) Dialectal Words, f) Colloquial Coinages. Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics. - M.: Higher School, 1977, pp.70 - 122; Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics. - M.: Higher School, 1986, pp. 25 - 37. Seminar 3 I. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices SDs Based on Interaction of Different Type of Lexical Meaning:: 1. Metaphor and Personification 2.Metonymy and Synechdoche 3. Allusion 4. Antonomasia 5. Allegory 6. Irony Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 138 - 148, 164 - 166; Kukharenko V.A.A Book of Practice in Stylistics, pp. 37 - 42, 46 - 52. Seminar 4 II. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices 1. SDs Based on Polysemantic Effect: a) Zeugma, b) Pun. 2. SDs Based on Interaction of Logical and Emotive Meaning: a) The Epithet, b) Oxymoron. 3. SDs Based on Intensification of a Certain Feature: a) Simile, b) Periphrasis, c) Euphemism, d) Hyperbole and meiosis. Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 153 - 164; 166 - 177; Kukharenko V.A.A Book of Practice in Stylistics, pp. 52 - 66.

Seminar 5 I. Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices

1.The stylistic value of sentence length: one word sentences, complex sentences. 2.SDs based on unusual juxtaposition of different parts of the utterance: stylistic inversion, detached construction. 3.SDs based on repetition: anaphora, epiphora, framing, anadiplosis, synonymic repetition, polysyndeton, parallel construction, chiasmus. Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 191 - 216. Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics, pp. 66 - 71; 72 - 78. Seminar 6 II. Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices 1. SDs based on transposition of syntactic structures: questions in the form of statements, rhetorical questions, questions in the narrative, litotes. 2. Syntactic means of compression: ellipsis, apokoinu construction, asyndeton, aposiopesis. 3. Syntactic convergence: enumeration, syllepsis. 4. SDs which can enfold within a sentence, supra-phrasal unit or paragraph: antithesis, climax (gradation), anticlimax (retardation), suspense. Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 216 - 226; 231 - 236; 244 - 248; Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics, pp. 71; 78 - 88; 93 - 94. Seminar 7 Functional Styles of the English Language 1. Functional styles and varieties of the language. 2. The belles-lettres style: a) the substyle of poetry; b) emotive prose; c) language of the drama. 3. Publicistic style. 4. Newspaper style. 5. Scientific prose style 6. The style of official documents. Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 35 41, 249 318. Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics, pp. 108 120. .. . . ., 2002, .316 370. Seminar 8 Essentials of Text Interpretation 1. Elements of fiction: plot, theme, message, setting, characters, mood. 2. Composition of a text. Types of narration. Description. Dialogue. Interior monologue. 3. Samples of stylistic analysis (Kukharenko pp. 120 124). Literature: Galperin I.R. Stylistics, pp. 319 322. Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics, pp. 100 108, 120 124. .. . . ., 2002, .63 81. Seminar 9 Practice in Text Interpretation Texts for interpretation: Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics, Ex. 26, pp. 123 133 or Ex. 28, pp. 134 135.