II. PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT

SEMINAR 3

STYLISTIC MORPHOLOGY

I. CHECK YOURSELF:

1. What are the basic principles of stylistic grammar?

2. What is grammatical transposition? How does it create stylistic effect?

3. Specify the following notions: " marked structures", "unmarked structures", "semi-marked structures". Provide your examples.

4. Dwell upon stylistic use of articles.

5. Can comparative and superlative degrees create stylistic effect?

6. Discuss stylistic potential of pronouns.

8. Give examples of transposition of verbs.

9. Comment on the notion of stylistic opposition.

II. PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT

Task 1. Study the following sentences and comment on the functions of morphological grammatical categories and parts of speech that perform stylistic function:

1.A gaunt and Halloweenish grin was plastered to her face.(B.S. Aldrich)

2. To hear her was to be beginning to despair. (R. Jarell)

3. The clamor of waters, snows, winds, rains … (E. Hemingway)

4. They are all being so formal. Let’s play the game to break the ice. (R. Bell)

5. Oh, I guess I love you, I do love the children, but I love myself, I love my life, it has some value and some promise for me … (J. Cheever)

6. They are allowed to have the train stopped at every cross-roads … (R. Atkinson)

7. He was the most married man I’ve ever met. (M. Arnold)

8. She’s the Honorable Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, you know – sister-in-law of Lord Pastmaster – a very wealthy woman, South American. (E. Waugh)

9. I don’t want to turn into a Teddy Bolan.

10. Chivalry is how you feel when you’re cold.

11. I don’t like Sunday evenings: I feel so Mondayish.

12. A man who is always complaining is the easiest man to satisfy because nothing satisfies him.

13. Mrs. Redhair was all smiles.

14. The snows of Kilimanjaro.

15. The waters of the Pacific ocean.

16. The sands of Africa.

17. She has hates, pities, wants!

18. There were long silences.

19. The room’s atmosphere is stuff.

20. She is the lady I told you about’s husband.

Task 2. Identify the cases of the transposition of pronouns.

1) We are thus led also to a definition of "time" in physics. (A. Einstein)

2) The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

(Ch.R. Swindoll)

3) (a) We are not amused. (Queen Victoria)

(b) We are not Queen Victoria.(Queen Elizabeth)

4) We know something you don't know.

5) How do we feel?

And how are we feeling today?

Aren't we looking cute?

6) One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning. (Lord Chasterfield)

7) The winner ain’t the one with the fastest car it’s the one who refuses to lose.

(D. Earnhardt)

8) In the afternoon the chairs came, a whole big cart full of little gold ones with legs in the air. And then the flowers came. When you stared down from the balcony at the people carrying them the flower pots looked like funny awfully nice hats nodding up the path. (K. Mansfield)

Task 3. The grammatical metaphor is the transposition of grammar tenses. Consider the use of grammatical tenses in the following sentences. Transform the first passage into the past tense. Comment on the changes that occur in its mood.

1) We arrive at about three o’clock on the Sunday afternoon. It is mid October. The Sun is already low in the sky. The garden is thick with windfalls, apples, pears and plums, over which a cloud of small flies hovers. (M. Lewycka)

2) McDonalds. I’m loving it!

Task 4. Get ready for the presentation on the following topic:

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