Module: Theoretical-Applied Aspects of Linguistics in Foreign Language

Education
Midterm 1
Pragma-professional tasks: Lexicology, Theoretical, Grammar, Communicative
Stylistics

10. Synonymy.
Arrange the following words into synonymic groups and explain which of
them belong to total (complete or absolute) synonymy. Give reasons
for your answer.
Pretty, beautiful, handsome: complete synonymy
functional affix, inflexion, flexion: absolute synonymy
to eat, to peck, to wolf: absolute synonymy

10. Parse the following underlined nouns in the text.

Indoors the fire was sinking and the room was dark red.
The woman put her saucepan on the hob, and set a batter pudding near the mouth
of the oven.

The fire
The determiner of the noun
Fire-
1. Type: It is common noun
2. Meaning: It is concrete noun
3. Uncountable noun
4. The number: singular
5. The gender: neuter
6. The case: nominative case
7. Object of the verb sinking
8. Inanimate
9. Material

The room
“The” determiner of the noun
1. Type: common
2. Countable
3. The number singular
4. The gender common
5. The case: nominative
6. Object of the word dark red
7. Inanimate

The woman - noun

1. Type: It is common noun
 2. The gender: feminine
3. The number singular
4. The case: nominative case
5. Subject of the verb put and set
6. animate

The saucepan
1. Type: It is common noun
2. Meaning: It is concrete noun
3. countable noun
4. The number: singular
5. The gender: common
6. The case: Objective case
7. Object of the verb sinking
8. Inanimate
9. Determined by pronoun her

The hob
1. The determiner of the noun
1. Type: It is common noun
2. Meaning: It is concrete noun
3. Countable noun
4. The number: singular
5. The gender: common
6. The case: Dative case
7. Object of the verb sinking
8. Inanimate
9. Determined by preposition of place on;

Text analysis: identify expressive means of language and stylistic devices,

comment on their functions in the given text.
10.“Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating” by Elizabeth Gilbert

But the weird thing is that every single day, during the crazy ride of "Eat,
Pray, Love," I found myself identifying all over again with that unpublished young
diner waitress who I used to be, thinking about her constantly, and feeling like I
was her again, which made no rational sense whatsoever because our lives could
not have been more different. She had failed constantly. I had succeeded beyond
my wildest expectation. We had nothing in common. Why did I suddenly feel like
I was her all over again?
And it was only when I was trying to unthread that I finally began to
comprehend the strange and unlikely psychological connection in our lives
between the way we experience great failure and the way we experience great
success. So think of it like this: For most of your life, you live out your existence
here in the middle of the chain of human experience where everything is normal
and reassuring and regular, but failure catapults you abruptly way out over here
into the blinding darkness of disappointment.
Success catapults you just as abruptly but just as far way out over here into
the equally blinding glare of fame and recognition and praise. And one of these
fates is objectively seen by the world as bad, and the other one is objectively seen
by the world as good, but your subconscious is completely incapable of discerning
the difference between bad and good. The only thing that it is capable of feeling
is the absolute value of this emotional equation, the exact distance that you have
been flung from yourself. And there’s a real equal danger in both cases of getting
lost out there in the hinterlands of the psyche.
But in both cases, it turns out that there is also the same remedy for self-
restoration, and that is that you have got to find your way back home again as
swiftly and smoothly as you can, and if you're wondering what your home is,
here's a hint: Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love
yourself. So that might be creativity, it might be family, it might be invention,
adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgis, I don't know, your home is
that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that
the ultimate results become inconsequential.

1) Functional Style
The Belles-Lettres Style: story
Publicistic Style: speeches
2)Text type: Narrative;
3) Style-formation factors of the communicative context:
sender – individual
receiver – collective
context of situation : This story is about a woman who tells about success and
failure in life.
b) pragmatic orientation of the text according to intention of a
sender/function of the text –explain, describe, tell, ask.
Stylistic devices:

Wildest expectation-oxymoron

great failure- oxymoron.

Between bad and good-metaphor

you love more than you love yourself-repetition

it might be family, it might be invention, it might be raising corgis - repetition

invention, adventure, faith, service epithets, corgis - epithets