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24. Syntactical stylistic devices: parallelism, chiasm; 26. Phonographical stylistic devices
inversion and its types SD based on the opposition of meanings of phonological and/or
Parallel constructions may be viewed as a purely syntactical type graphical elements of the language are called phonetical and
of repetition for here we deal with the reiteration of the structure of graphical stylistic devices.
several successive sentences (clauses), and not of their lexical Onomatopoeia - the use of words whose sounds imitate those of
"flesh". True enough, parallel constructions almost always include the signified object or action, such as "hiss", "bowwow", "murmur",
some type of lexical repetition too, and such a convergence produces "bump", "grumble", "sizzle" and many more. Poetry abounds in some
specific types of sound-instrumenting, the leading role belonging to death; A Gordian knot = complicated problem; To go to Canossar =
alliteration - the repetition of consonants, usually-in the beginning публично покаяться, унизится; 5. Elevated phr.units: Eg. To
of words, and assonance - the repetition of similar vowels, usually in breath one’s last – до самой смерти; To fiddle while Rome burns –
stressed syllables. They both may produce the effect of euphony (a пир во время чумы. Within elevated phr.units he (Koonin)
sense of ease and comfort in pronouncing or hearing) or cacophony distinguishes: a) Archaic (the iron in one’s soul – душевные муки,
(a sense of strain and discomfort in pronouncing or hearing). To to play upon advantage – обманывать, надувать) and b) Poetic
create additional information in a prose discourse sound- phr.units (of high account – имеющий ценность, most and the least
instrumenting is seldom used. In contemporary advertising, mass – все без исключения); 6. Foreign phr.units (barbarisms). Eg. A
media and, above all, imaginative prose sound is fore grounded la carte – по заказу, a la mode – по моде, beaumonde – бомонд,
mainly through the change of its accepted graphical representation. высший свет, ad patress – к праотцам, ad verbum – слово в слово.
This intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or word All sorts of proverbs and sayings may undergo some changes.
combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation is called L.A. Barkova made a research in which she studied pragmatic
graphon. : mispronunciations in the speech of uneducated people effect of using phr.units in commercial advertisements: eg. The other
(“peepul”, “jewinile”), amalgamated forms (“gimme” (give me), side of the medal (usual p.unit) – the other side of the metal (ads.), so
“gonna” (going to), mispronunciations which show the physical far so good (usual p.unit) – sofa so good (ads.).
defects of the speakers: stumbling, lisping; graphical changes used
to convey the intensity of the stress, emphasizing and thus 28. Narratology as a branch of linguistics. Types of
foregrounding the stressed words, i.e. all changes of the type (italics, narration and main compositional forms
capitalization), spacing of the graphemes (hyphenation, Naratology-special branch of linguistics, which deals with
multiplication) and of lines (verse lines organized in “steps”). narrative of text. The roots of modern naratology can be found in the
Rhyme is the repetition of identical or similar sound combinations of narrative theory of Russian formalist such as M.Bachtin, Lotman,
words. Rhythm- the flow of speech presents an alternation of Tomashevskiy, Schlovskiy, Propp – the fathers of naratology.
stressed and unstressed elements; the pattern of interchange of strong Naratology as a special science combines linguistics an literary. It
and weak segments is called rhythm. was formed in the last, but now its acknowledged and being
developed in different countries. The term “naratology” was
27. Stylistic phraseology. Stylistic differentiation of proposed by Todorov by its etymology the word “narrative” stands
phraseological units. Usual and occasional phraseological units, back to the word (latin verb) “narrare” (“to tell” to give an account
their stylistic function “of”, which in its term goes back Indo-European “gna” (knowledge).
Phraseological unit – is a system of words a meaning of which Narrative-the recounting of one or more real fiction events presented
can’t be guessed from the meaning of its components (Koonin). in the chronological order. Narrative is basically a story of
Each phr.unit is characterized by a certain degree of cohesion. happenings of event either real or imaginary which the narrator
Phr.units are characterized by the following feature’s: 1. Stability; consider interesting or important. Types of narration. The author’s
2. Semantic integraty; 3. Ready-made structure which can’t be narrative: unfolded plot, personages of given characteristic, the time
changed or substituted. and place of action. The authorial narrative supplies the reader with
Professor Screbnev differentiate direct information about author preferences and objections believes
1. Formal/bookish phr.units: Eg. The knight of the Quill = a and contradictions. A) entrusted narrative is used in an afford to
writer; A heart of oak = brave, courageous; Achilles hill – ахилесова make the text more plausible, to impress the reader with the facts of
пята authenticity of the described events. The write entrust some fictions
2. Neutral phr.units are units which are devoid of any character with the task of dealing story. The writer himself that hides
emotiveness: Eg. By hook or by crock – всеми правдами и behind the figure of the narrator. Dialogue: personage express their
неправдами; For good and for all – раз и навсегда mind in the utter speech. In their exchange of remarks the
3. Familiar colloquial phr.units: Eg. Have bats in one’s belfry – participants of the dialogue, other people and their action expose
быть не в своем уме; A pretty kettle of fish – веселенькая история; them self to. One of the significant forms of the personage self-
To rain cats and dogs – неприятности валятся; To be one’s cups – characterization-dialogue, which allows the author to show him in
быть навеселе, подвыпившим; Small fry – мелкая сошка the process. Interior speech of personage- its allows the author and
4. Slangish phr.units: Eg. To drop off the hooks – сорваться с the readers to peep into inner world of the character, to observe his
петель, умереть; To kick the bucket – дать дуба; To hop the twig – idea and view: a) interior monologue- a rather lengthy peace of text
загнуться, дать дуба dealing with the main topic of the character thinking, offering past,
Professor I.V. Arnold classifies phr.units into future actions; b) short in-sets- presents immediate mental and
1. Usual p.units that are fixed in the dictionaries; 2. Occasional emotional reactions of the personage to the remark or event by
p.units that is creation of different authors. They are contextual characters; c) stream of consciousness technic- specially popular with
predetermined. They appeared as a result of some change in usual their representative of modernism in contenting literature. The author
units. These changes are the following: a. Prolongation. Eg. To be tries to portray the purely associated character. Represented speech
born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth (usual p.unit) – родится под (reported speech)-serves to show either the mental production of the
счастливой звездой: Little George was born with a silver spoon in a character thinking: a) represented uttered speech; b) represented
mouth which was curly and large (prolongation). b. Substitution. inner speech. The main narrative compositional forms. If its
Eg. All the world and his wife (usual p.unit) – всё светское semantic of the text that its taken as foundation of classification 3
общество: all the world and his mistress (substitution) were at the narrative forms traditionally analyzed in poetics and stylistics:
party. c. Insertion (вклинивание). Eg. To turn one’s nose at sb. narrative proper (the unfolding of the plot is concentrating,
(usual p.unit) – смотреть с высока: She turned her well-shaped dynamic form of the text), description (supplies the details of
(insertion) nose at him. appearance of people and things of the place and time of action -
Professor Koonin differentiate phr.units: static), argumentation (offers causes and effects of the personages
1. Stylistically neutral are units which are devoid of any behavior, his considerations about moral, ethical, ideological or other
emotiveness: Eg. By hook or by crock – всеми правдами и issues). Its rather seldom that any of their compositional forms is
неправдами; For good and for all – раз и навсегда; 2. Emotive used in a pure uninterrupted way.
phr.units contain some kind of attitude towards this and that subject.
Eg. As welcome as flower in may; 3. Expressive phr.units are
characterized by some degree of expressiveness. Eg. He is dead nuts
on this girl = he is full of love; 4. Stylistically marked phr.units are
those which are referred either to the formal or non-literary informal
styles (jargon, slang, vulgarisms, etc.). Eg. The debt of nature =