Stylistic lexicology

• Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary

PLAN

• Stylistic classification of the English language vocabulary. Classification criteria
• Standard English vocabulary and its constituents. Neutral words.
• Specific literary vocabulary. Terms, poetic and archaic words, obsolete and obsolescent words, literary coinages and neologisms, foreignisms and barbarisms
• Specific colloquial vocabulary. Professionalisms, jargon and slang, vulgarisms and nonce-words, dialectisms.

LITERATURE

• Galperin – pp 70-119
• Мороховский – сс.93-128
• Арнольд – сс.105-131

Stylistic classification of the English language vocabulary

• The literary layer, the neutral layer and the colloquial layer
• Aspect - a certain property, characteristic of the layer on the whole
• Aspect of the literary layer - markedly bookish character, more or less stable
• Aspect of the colloquial layer - lively spoken character, unstable, fleeting.
• Aspect of the neutral layer - its universal character

The special literary vocabulary

• Terms
• Poetical words
• Archaic, obsolete/obsolescent words
• Foreignisms and barbarisms
• Literary nonce-words or neologisms
• Literary words are legitimate members of the English vocabulary, without local or dialectal character. They are used in both oral and written speech

The special literary vocabulary

• Bookish words: concord, adversary, divergence, volition, calamity, susceptibility, sojourn, etc.
• Phraseological combinations that belong to the general literary stratum: in accordance with, with regard to, by virtue of, to speak at great length, to draw a lesson, to lend assistance.
• in fiction - the primary stylistic function of general literary words which appear in the speech of literary personages is to characterize the person as pompous and verbose