the connotation of
attendant features.
IX.
Stylistic connotations
stand somewhat apart for two reasons. Firstly, some
scholars do not regard the word’s stylistic characteristic as a connotative
component of its semantic structure. Secondly, stylistic connotations are
subject to further classification, namely: colloquial, slang, dialect, learned,
poetic, terminological, archaic. Here we are dealing with
stylistically
marked
words.
Here are some examples of synonyms which are differentiated by stylistic
connotations. The word in brackets starting each group shows the denotation of
synonyms.
(Meal). Snack, bite (coll.), snap (dial.), repast, refreshment, feast (formal).
These synonyms, besides stylistic connotations, have connotations of attendant
features.
Snack, bite, snap all denote a frugal meal taken in a hurry; refreshment is also a
light meal; feast is a rich or abundant meal.
(Girl). Girlie (coll.), lass, lassie (dial.), bird, birdie,jane, fluff, skirt (sl.), maiden
(poet.), damsel (arch.).
(To leave). To be off, to clear out (coll.), to beat it, to hoof it, to take the air (sl.), to
depart, to retire, to withdraw (formal).
1.Лексикология английского языка – Г.Б. Антрушина, 1999.
(Antrushina G.B.,, English
Lexicology, 1999)
ix.gverdebi 184 - 198.
2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym
3.
www.brusov.am/docs/Eng_Phon_Gram.../Lecture-Margaryan.doc
Lecture IV
Exercises for Seminars and Independent Work
I.Consider your answers to the following:
1.Say why synonyms are one of the language’s most important expressive means.
Illustrate your answer with examples.
2.The meanings of two apparent synonyms may be in a way opposed to each other.
Why are such words still regarded as synonyms? Give examples.
3.How are synonyms traditionally defined? On what criterion is this definition based?
Which aspects of this definition are open to criticism?
4. How can synonyms be defined in terms of componential analysis? On what criterion
is this definition based?
5. Why is the definition of synonyms based on the criterion of interchangeability open to
question? Illustrate your answer with examples.
6.Which aspects of the classification of synonyms are open to question?
7. What is the modern approach to classifying synonyms? Illustrate this classification
with examples.
8.Synonyms are sometimes described as words with “dual” charateristics. What is
meant by this?
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