Tasks for discussion and homework

Tasks for discussion and homework
1. Comment on the notions of style and sublanguages in the national language. – Style can be defined as a set of specific features of a text type or of a concrete text. Style is just what differenciates a group of homogeneous texts from other groups(texts). Style is specificity of sublanguage. Each sublanguage is subject to its own norm.
2. What are the interdisciplinary links of stylistics and other linguistic subjects such as phonetics, lexicology, grammar and semasiology? Provide examples.How does stylistics differ from them in its subject-matter and fields of study? – Being a branch of Linguistics Stylistics is closely connected with all its branches, as the subject matter of the stylistic analysis in the language in all its aspects, but stylistics differs from other branches of Linguistics by its tasks and approaches.
3. Give an outline of the stylistic differentiation of the national English vo­cabulary: neutral, literary, colloquial layers of words; areas of their overlapping. Describe literary and common colloquial stratums of vocabulary, their stratification. – The English vocabulary is divided into neutral, literary and colloquial strata. Literary stratum of words: archaisms,barbarisms and foreign words,terms,neologisms. Colloquial stratum of words:slang,vulgarisms,jargonisms,dialectal words.
4. How does stylistic colouring and stylistic neutrality relate to inherent and adherent stylistic connotation? – what we often call “the norm” in terms of stylistics would be more appropriate to call “neutrality”. Within the stylistically coloured words there is another opposition between formal and informal vocabulary. Stylistically coloured words possess inherent stylistic connotations. Stylistically neutral words will have only adherent stylistic connotations acquired in a context.
5. Can you distinguish neutral, formal and informal among the following groups of words:
1. A) currency - f B) money - n C) dough -i
2. A) to talk -n B) to converse - f C) to chat - i
3. A) to chow down - f B) to eat - n C) to dine - i
4. A) to start -n B) to commence -f C) to kick off - i
5. A) insane -n B) nuts - i C) mentally ill -f
6. A) spouse -f B) hubby - i C) husband - n
7. A) to leave - n B) to withdraw - f C) to shoot off - i
8. A) geezer - i B) senior citizen - f C) old man - n
9. A) veracious -f B) opens - i C) sincere - n
10. A) mushy - i B) emotional - n C) sentimental - f