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Linguistics Historical Perspective
Very useful notes on linguistics.Helpful for M.A. English.
From AbdulRehman
Theoretical IssuesFor Bachelor & Master DegreeDepartment of English PhilologyIvan Franko National University (Lviv)
Fundamentals of the History of theEnglish Language
1.Periodization of the history of the development of the English Language
(
Phonetic peculiarities, peculiarities of the grammarstructure, vocabulary of the Germanic languages
);
2.Old English Period in the History of the English Language
(
Main Historic Events of the Period, Germanic invasion,phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary
)
3.Middle English Period in the History of the English Language
(
Main Historic Events of the Period, Norman Conquest,phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary
)
4.The Period of the formation of the national language (XV-XVI c.)
(
The Great Vowel Shift, phonetics, morphology, syntax,borrowings in the language
)
5.New English Period in the History of the English Language
(
Main Historic Events of the Period, the language of XVII-XVIII centuries, phonetics, grammar structure, vocabulary
).
Recommended Literature on the topic
:
1. Иванова И.П., Чахоян Л.П. История английского языка. – М.:Высшая школа, 1976. – 319 с.2. Аракин В.Д. Исторя английского языка. – М.: Высшая школа,1985. – 256 с.3. Костюченко Ю.П. Історія англійскої мови. – К.: Радянськашкола, 1953. – 352 с.4. Ильиш Б.А. История английского языка. – М.: Высшая школа,1968. – 415 с.5. Левицький В.В. Основи германістики. – Вінниця: Нова книга,2006. – 528 с.6. Расторгуева Т.А. История английского языка. – М., 1983.7. Верба Л.Г. Історія англійської мови. – Вінниця, 2004.
FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGLISHSTYLISTICS
1. Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
(phonemic repetitions: alliteration, assonance, rhyme;direct and indirect onomatopoeia – sound imitation)
2.
The Notion of Rhetorical Image. Major Tropes. Lexical and Lexical-Syntactic Stylistic Devices
(figurative language, name-transference; metaphor, metonymy,verbal irony; hyperbole, meiosis, litotes; epithet,antonomasia, periphrasis; simile; oxymoron; pun, zeugma)
3.Expressive Syntax
(Loose and periodic sentences, suspense; ellipsis, asyndeton,aposiopesis; stylistic inversion, detachment, parenthesis)
4.
Lexical and Syntactic Repetitions. Syntactic Parallelism
(repetitions in strong position: anaphora, etc.; parallelpatterns; chiasmus; antithesis; gradation – climax andanticlimax; polysyndeton; enumeration; pleonasm and tautology;rhythm)
5.Functional Styles of English
(the belles-lettres style – emotive (imaginative) prose,poetry, drama; poetic diction, poetic metre, English verseforms – blank, stanzaic, and free verse; the official style– military, business, etc. documents; the scientific(prose) style; the newspaper style – brief news items,advertisements, the language peculiarities of headlines;the publicist style – speeches, essays, journalisticarticles)
Recommended Literature
1.Galperin I.R. Stylistics – M., 1977.2.Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics - M., 1986.3.Kuznetsova L.A., Smykalova L.A. Lectures on EnglishStylistics – Lviv, 1972.4.Skrebnev Yu. M. Fundamentals of English Stylistics – M., 2000.
5.
Baldick Ch. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of LiteraryTerms – OUP, 1990.6.Арнольд И.В. Стилистика современного английского языка –М., 1990.7.Мороховский А.Н., Воробьева О.П. и др. Стилистикаанглийского языка – К., 1984.8.Пелевина Н.Ф. Стилистический анализ художественного текста– Л., 1986.9.Кухаренко В.А. Практикум по интерпретации художественноготекста – М., 1987.
Fundamentals of English Lexicology
1. The Etymological Structure of the English Vocabulary
(Native and borrowed elements: prefixes, suffixes, Indo-European and Germanic roots, international words, etymologicaldoublets)
2. Word-Building
(Main types of word-building: affixation, conversion,composition, shortening; minor means: sound-imitation/onomatopoeia, reduplication, back-formation)
3. The Problem of Meaning
(Types of meaning: denotative, connotative; change of meaning:broadening, narrowing, degradation, elevation; transference ofmeaning: metaphor, metonymy; polysemy: main meaning, secondarymeanings)
4. Homonyms
(Sources of homonymy, classification of homonyms:a)homophones, homographs, homonyms proper;b) full homonyms, partial homonyms)
5. Synonyms. Euphemisms. Antonyms
(Types of synonyms, types of connotation, dominant synonym,euphemisms, antonyms)
6. Phraseology. Principles of Classification
(Idioms and free word-groups, proverbs, classification ofidioms)
6.Methods and Procedures of the Lexicological Analysis
(Distributional analysis, IC analysis, Transformationalanalysis)
Recommended Literature on the topic
:
1.
O.D. Soloshenko, U. A. Zavgorodnev. Lecture Notes onEnglish Lexicology. - Lviv: Evro Swit, 1998. – 225 p.2.Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикологияанглийского языка. – м.,1985.
3.
Арнольд И.В. Лексикология современного английского языка(The English Word). – М., 1973
.
4.
Мостовий М.І. Лексикологія англійської мови. – Харків:Основа, 1993. – 256 с.
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