1. General Notes on Style and Stylistics
2. Expressive Means (EM) and Stylistic Devices (SD)
3. General Notes on Functional Styles of Language
4. Varieties of Language
5. Тhe Development of the English Literary (Standard)
Language
6. Meaning from a Stylistic Point of View
Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary
1. General Considerations
2. Neutral, Common Literary and Common Colloquial Vocabulary
3. Special Literary Vocabulary
a) Terms
b) Poetic and Highly Literary Words
c) Archaic, Obsolescent and Obsolete Words
d) Barbarisms and Foreignisms
e) Literary Coinages (Including Nonce-Words)
4. Special Colloquial Vocabulary
a) Slang
b) Jargonisms
c) Professionalisms
d) Dialectal Words it t
e) Vulgar Words or Vulgarisms
f) Colloquial Coinages (Words and Meanings)
Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
General Notes
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Rhyme
Rhythm N
Part IV. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
A. Intentional Mixing of the Stylistic Aspect of. Words ... ...... 136
В. Interaction of Different Types of Lexical Meaning ............ 138
1. Interaction of Primary Dictionary and Contextually Imposed Meanings 139
Metaphor ............................. 139
Metonymy t ........ ^ ............... \ ... 144
Irony , 5 ............................ 146
2. Interaction of Primary and Derivative Logical Meanings ...... 148
Stylistic Devices Based on Polysemantics Effect, Zeugma and Pun .... 148
3. Interaction of Logical and Emotive Meanings ............ 153
Interjections and Exclamatory Words ............... 154
The Epithet ,,,*....................... 157
Oxymoron >“. “ “ ....................... 162
4. Interaction of Logical and Nominal Meanings ........... 164
Antonomasia ........................... 164
C. Intensification of a Certain Feature of a Thing or Phenomenon ...... 166
' Simile ............................... 167
/, • ^Periphrasis .I.....'..............'...-..... 169
!""' Euphemism ............................. 173
Hyperbole .............................. 176
D. Peculiar Use of Set Expressions .................... 177
The Cliche .............................. 177
Proverbs and Sayings .. :< ....................... 181
Epigrams .............................. 184
Quotations ............................. 186
Allusions .............................. 187
.Decomposition of Set Phrases .................... 189“
5 Part V. Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
General Considerations .......................... '191
ВГ Problems Concerning the Composition of Spans of Utterance Larger than the
Sentence .............................. 193
Supra-Phrasal Units ......................... 194
The Paragraph ........................... 198
C. Compositional Patterns of Syntactical Arrangement .......... 202
Stylistic Inversion .......................... 203
•j Detached Construction ....................... 205
/Parallel Construction ........................ 208
[Chiasmus (Reversed Parallel Construction) .............. 209
Repetition ............................. 211
Enumeration . . . ......................... 216
Suspense. . ....... . ..................... 218
Climax (Gradation) ... \ ...................... 219
Antithesis .............................. 222
D. Particular Ways of Combining Parts of the Utterance (Linkage) . . . . ; 225
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Asyndeton ............................. 226
Polysyndeton . > .-,-......................... 226
The Gap-Sentence -Link . .^. .................... 227
E. Particular Use of Colloquial Constructions .............. 230
Ellipsis". .............................. 231
Break-in-the-Narrative(Aposiopesis) .................. 233
Question-in-the-Narrative . . . ................... 235
Represented Speech ......................... 236
a) Uttered Represented Speech ................... 238
b) Unuttered or Inner Represented Speech ............. 241
F. Stylistic Use of Structural Meaning ................. 244
Rhetorical Questions V * * . . ................... 244
Litotes ...............................
Part VI. Functional Styles of the English Language
Introductory Remarks ......................... 249
A. The belles-lettres Style ....................... 250
1. Language of Poetry ........................ 252
a) Compositional Patterns of Rhythmical Arrangement ........ 252
Meter and Line ., ,• ..................... 252
The Stanza ...... §. .................... 258
Free Verse and Accented Verse '. ................ 261
b) Lexical and Syntactical Features of Verse ............ 264
2. Emotive Prose .......................... 270
3. Language of the Drama .................... 281
В Publicists Style ........................... 287
1 Oratory and Speeches ^ ...................... 288
2. The Essay ............................ 293
3. Journalistic Articles ........................ 295
С Newspaper Style (written by V. L. Nayer) .............. 295
1. Brief News Items ........................ 298
2. Advertisements and Announcements ................ 301
3.' The Headline ........................... 302
4 The Editorial ........................... 305
D Scientific Prose Style ......................... 307
E. The Style of Official Documents ................... 312
Final Remarks ............*................. 319
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