Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Theoretical questions on Stylistics (Part-time faculty - 4th year)

  1. General Notes on Style and Stylistics
  2. Individual Style Study. Decoding and Encoding Stylistics.
  3. Classification of Functional Styles in English. Give the Definition of a Functional Style.
  4. The Scientific Prose Style. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
  5. The Belles-Lettres Style: Emotive Prose, Language of Poetry, Language of the Drama.
  6. The Style of Official Documents. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
  7. The Newspaper Style (Brief News Items, the Headline). Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
  8. The Publicist Style. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
  9. The Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary (outline). Neutral, Literary and Colloquial Vocabulary.
  10. Special Literary Vocabulary
  11. Special Colloquial Vocabulary.
  12. Lexical EMs and SDs: Metaphor, Personification, Metonymy, Irony.
  13. Lexical EMs and SDs: Zeugma, Pun, Antonomasia
  14. Lexical EMs and SDs: Simile, Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole.
  15. Lexical EMs and SDs: Interjections and Exclamatory Words, Epithet, Oxymoron.
  16. Phonetic Stylistic Means.
  17. Graphic Stylistic Means.
  18. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Asyndeton, Polysyndeton, Epiphora, Anaphora, Anadiplosis.
  19. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Stylistic Inversion, Detached Constructions, Parallel Constructions, Chiasmus.
  20. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Suspense, Climax, Antithesis