Morphological features

Use of regular morphological features, with interception of evaluative suffixes e. g. deary, doggie, duckie.Prevalence of active and finite verb forms.

Lexical Peculiarities of the Literary-Colloquial style.

The style of informal, friendly oral communication is called colloquial. The vocabulary of colloquial style is usually lower than that of the formal or neutral styles, it is often emotionally coloured and characterised by connotations (consider the endearing connotations in the words daddy, kid or the evaluating components in trash).

Colloquial speech is characterised by the frequent use of words with a broad meaning (something close to polysemy): speakers tend to use a small group of words in quite different meanings, whereas in a formal style (official, business, scientific) every word is to be used in a specific and clear meaning.

Lexical features:

a)Wide range of vocabulary in accordance with the register of communication and participants' roles: formal and informal, neutral and bookish, terms and foreign words.

b)Basic stock of communicative vocabulary - stylistically neutral.

c)Use of socially accepted contracted forms and abbreviations, e. g. fridge for refrigerator, ice for ice-cream, TV for television, CD for compact disk, etc.

d)Use of etiquette language and conversational formulas, such as nice to see you, my pleasure, on behalf of, etc.

e)Extensive use of intensifies and gap-fillers, e.g. absolutely, definitely, awfully, kind of, so to speak, I mean, if I may say so.

f) Use of interjections and exclamations, e. g. Dear me, My God, Goodness, well, why, now, oh.

g)Extensive use of phrasal verbs let sb down, put up with, stand sb up (to betray, to let sb down).

h)Use of words of indefinite meaning like thing, stuff.

i) Avoidance of slang, vulgarisms, dialect words, jargon.

j)Use of phraseological expressions, idioms and figures of speech.

vocabulary: conversational (everyday life) vocabulary, priority of neutral widely-used words with concrete, wide use of non-literary vocabulary, expressive-emotional vocabulary, means of verbal imagery, well-developed synonymy and polysemy, the use of stylistic devices.

Structural Peculiarities of the Literary-Colloquial style.

The style of informal, friendly oral communication is called colloquial. The vocabulary of colloquial style is usually lower than that of the formal or neutral styles, it is often emotionally coloured and characterised by connotations (consider the endearing connotations in the words daddy, kid or the evaluating components in trash).

Compositional features:

a)Can be used in written and spoken varieties: dialogue, monologue, personal letters, diaries, essays, articles, etc.

b) Prepared types of texts may have logical composi­tion, determined by conventional forms (letters, presentations, articles, interviews).

c)Spontaneous types have a loose structure, relative coherence and uniformity of form and content.

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 1785