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Lexical Stylistic Devices

Lexical Stylistic Devices. Metonymy, Epithet. Contextual and Transferred Meanings.

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Lexical Stylistic Devices

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  1. Lexical Stylistic Devices Metonymy, Epithet

  2. Contextual and Transferred Meanings Words in a context acquire additional lexical meanings, not fixed in dictionaries. They are contextualmeanings. Transferredmeaning is the interrelation between dictionary and contextual meanings of a word (SD).

  3. What are the bases for SD? • Metaphor is based on affinity(similarity). • Metonymy is based on proximity(or symbol-referent relations). • Ironyis based on opposition.

  4. Definition of Metonymy Metonymy is based on association between dictionary and contextual meanings. NB! In a metonymy the objects (phenomena) have common grounds of existence in reality.

  5. NB! Common grounds E.g.: cupand tea; hand and worker; Rome and Catholicbelief; big bucksand wealth; underwearand reputation; beardand elderly age (respect or irony); the White House and the USA; Downing Street, 10 and the British Government, etc.

  6. Types of Relations in a Metonymy1 • A specific thing for an abstract notion: salad days, bottle, grave. • The container instead of the thing contained: Red Riding Hood, hall, town. • The material for the thing made of it: kid, bronze and clay.

  7. Types of Relations in a Metonymy2 • Instrument for the action: a good whip (about a horseman),in Russian: кулакне аргумент. • The relation of proximity: The round gametable was boisterous and noisy. • Result instead of the cause: He (рыба)takes the death (глотает гибельный крючок).

  8. Types of Relations in a Metonymy3 • A characteristic trait instead of the person: Blue suit grinned, might even have winked. • An abstract notion meaning a feeling or emotion instead of the person possessing it: «Trouble, sir?» replied subservience, as if at a loss to understand a sinister allusion.

  9. Synecdoche Synecdocheis based on a particular kind of metonymic relationship which may be considered quantitative: • A part stands for the whole or the whole for the part: May I put a word in? Wheels (a car), staged hand, hired hand. • An individual stands for a class: “… иликовалфранцуз”.

  10. Antonomasia It is a lexical SD in which a proper name is used instead of a common noun or vice versa: He is the Napoleon of crime; Mr. Murdstone, Scrooge, a lady-killer is Don Juan, a traitor may be referred to as Brutus.

  11. Metaphoric(based on similarity): The Gioconda smile. Look atthoseRomeo andJuliet.He isa regularSher-lock Holmes. Metonymic(based on association): He has sold hisVandykes. I’vejust listened toMozart.Do youlike Brahms? Two types of antonomasia

  12. Carl SandburgFog The fog comes On little cat feet. It sits looking Over harbour and city On silent haunches And then moves on.

  13. Walter de la MareSILVER Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks through the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log, With paws of silver sleeps the dog;

  14. Walter de la MareSILVER From their shadowy coat the white breasts peep Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep; A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and a silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

  15. EPITHET An epithet is a colorful attribute which characterizes a person, thing or phenome -non. Poetic epithet: a steel will. Simple adjective: a steelknife. Function: to reveal the emotionally colored individual attitude of the author towards the object described.

  16. The structure of epithets 1. Metaphoricepithet: The ghost of a smile appeared on Soames’ face. 2. Phrase epithet: She gave him her best go-to-hell look, and backed away from the counter. 3.Transferred epithet: unbreakfastedmorn -ing, a disapproving finger, silver-feathered sleep. We heard the loud musicians play,etc.

  17. Read the following: 1. Galperin I.R. STYLISTICS, pp.140-142. 2. Беспальчикова Е.В. Обучение анализу текста // ИЯШ, 2002. - №2. - С.52-55 (blue file in the Resource Center). 3. Ивашкин Н.П. и др. Практикум по стилистике… - С.6-13. 4. Казакова Т.А. Практические основы перевода. - СПб.: Союз, 2000. - С.259-265.

  18. Do the following exercises: 1. ИЯШ, 2002, №2. - Pp.53-54 (27 sentences) 2. Ивашкин и др. Ex. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, pp.13-18. Take your time!

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