Name: Avelino S.

Kalalang, III

Course: MAT English

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Republic of the Philippines CARLOS HILADO MEMORIAL STATE COLLEGE Talisay City, Negros Occidental Course Number:Eng 501 Course Title: Descriptive Linguistics

A Clockwork Orange: Meaning and Form in Context

The passage below is taken from Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange. Many of the vocabulary items are borrowed (loosely) from Russian. First read the passage, trying to match the "new" words (underlined) with the definitions given in question A. Both structural (syntactic and morphological) clues and context will be helpful in figuring out what the words mean. Then answer questions A and B.
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening,. . . . The Korova Milkbar was a milk plus mesto, and you may, 0 my brothers, have forgotten what these mestos were like, things changing so skorry these days and everybody very quick to forget, newspapers not being read much neither. Well, what they sold there was milk plus something else. They had no licence for selling liquor, but there was no law yet against prodding some of the new veshches which they used to put into the old moloko, so you could peet it with vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom or one or two other veshches which would give you a nice quiet horror show fifteen minutes admiring Bog And All His Holy Angels And Saints in your left shoe with lights bursting all over your mozg. Or you could peet milk with knives in it, as we used to say, and this would sharpen you up . . . and that was what we were peeting this evening I'm starting off the story with.

Questions A. Match each underlined word in the text with one of the definitions on the right, as shown in the first example. (Note: N = noun, V = verb, Adv = adverb) Word 1. droog 2. bog 3. mozg 4. veshches 5. skorry 6. rassodocks 7. mestos 8. moloko 9. prodding 10. peet Definition friend (N) God (N) brain (N) thing (N) quickly (Adv) mind (N) place (N) milk (N) to produce (V) to drink (V)

B. Provide morphological evidence (and syntactic evidence as well, if you can) to support your choices in question A. The first space is filled in as an example. 1. Droog (Morphological) The plural -S is attached to droog. Droog occurs in the phrase my three droogs. Nouns combine with possessive pronouns (my, his) and adjectives (three, red, happy) to form noun phrases. Context suggests that droog refers to Alex's companions. The definition most compatible with droog, then, is 'friend." Bog occurs in the phrase and all his holy angels and saints, suggesting that Bog is some form of deity that owns a substantial amount of underlings. Angels and saints are archetypes linked to the alleged existence of a higher being. Mozg comes after the pronoun your. Context suggests that drinking milk laced with implied psychoactive substances, will cause you to hallucinate. Hallucinations are products of a drug influenced brain. Therefore, seeing strange lights in your mozg is akin to seeing lights in your mind. The plural -s is attached to vesche. It is referred to with the verb put and the adverb on something. Combined with the adjective new, it forms a noun phrase. It is implied that veshches are objects or substances, that you can put in milk to sharpen or alter your mind. Skorry is an adverb because it is linked with the verb changing. The word so indicates that something that is changing is doing so at a suggested pace. The plural -s is attached to rassodocks. It is combined with the possessive pronoun our. The narrator and his group of friends are indecisive about something so the phrase make up your mind comes into mind. Making up your rassodocks then, is similar to making up your mind. The plural -s is attached to mesto. It comes after the pronoun these. Therefore, mestos is a noun. Context assumes that the phrase these mestos refers to the Korova Milkbar. Since the milkbar is some form of locale, mesto then should be defined as a place. Moloko is a noun because it is referred to by the word it in the phrase: which they used to put into the old moloko so you could peet it with vellocet We could assume that moloko is milk since it is something that they peet (drink) with drugs or knives - which is what the group was having at the time as mentioned in the last sentence. The milkbar only serves milk. Prodding contains the noun suffix -ing. Prodding occurs in the phrase prodding some of the new veshches before license for selling liquor. By repetition, it is suggested that prodding is similar to selling. In the last sentence, peet contains the suffix -ing, signifying it is a verb. Context clues suggest that to peet milk at a milk bar, is to drink it.

2. Bog

3. Mozg

4. Veshches

5. Skorry

6. Rassodocks

7. Mestos

8. Moloko

9. Prodding

10. Peet