Month: February 2021
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Grammatical Characteristics of Qualitative Adjectives.
3. Тавсифи грамматикии сифати дарчаи олиAdjectives are those words which describe noun or pronouns. Qualitative and Quantitative Adjectives are two among seven types of Adjectives.Qualitative Adjectives deal with characteristics of people or objects. Qualitative Adjectives are those Adjectives which can describe quality of living beings or non-living things, what kind?…
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The Numeral. Kind of Numerals.
2. Ракамхо. Намудхои ракамNumerals in English is a part of speech that defines the number or the order of items. Words indicating number are called numerals. They are adjectives, nouns or adverbs.1. There are seven days in the week. [Adjective].2. Twelve make a dozen. [Noun].3. I have called twice. [Adverb].There…
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The Use of Definite and Indefinite Articles
1.Истифодаи артиклхои муаяни ва номуаянIn English there are three articles: a, an, and the. Articles are used before nouns or noun equivalents and are a type of adjective. The definite article (the) is used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader.…
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The Use of Definite and Indefinite Articles
1.Истифодаи артиклхои муаяни ва номуаянIn English there are three articles: a, an, and the. Articles are used before nouns or noun equivalents and are a type of adjective. The definite article (the) is used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader.…
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“Man, the Many-Pocketed Animal Or, Why do Skirts have no Trouser-Pockets? Fashion and (Anti-) Feminism in Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind in the Willows”byEva Oppermann, University of Kassel
I would like to begin my paper with a short but significant anecdote: when I was on a school excursion to Vienna, about ten years ago, I once took a tram to the city together with my friend Tini, and one of our teachers. Suddenly, the teacher asked me if…
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“Alice in Wonderland” by L. Carroll. Chapter 5. “Advice from a Caterpillar”
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.`Who are YOU?’ said the Caterpillar.This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I–I…
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“Invisible man” by G. Wells. Chapter II. Mr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions
At four o’clock, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar. “My sakes! Mrs. Hall,” said he, “but this is terrible weather for thin…
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“Feminist Studies” Volume 23, Number 3 by Claire G. Moses pp. 594-599
ConclusionI do not mean to imply that the lines on the question of separatism ran strictly in accordance with sexuality or that no other factors shaped the political practices of separatist organizing. As the evidence presented here makes clear, women with in the international women’s movement in the first half…
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“Feminist Studies” Volume 23, Number 3 by Claire G. Moses pp. 550-553
GENDERS UNDER PRODUCTIONWhen Mexico’s Border Industrialization Program was established in 1965, it was already framed in public, gendered rhet:lrics. The border, export-processing factories, known as “maquilas,” were ostensibly intended to hire men expelled from migrant labor jobs in the United States. However, like other export-processing factories in free-trade zones around…
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“Feminist Studies” Volume 23, Number 3 by Claire G. Moses pp.543 – 546
Male workers were willing to identify with her position, in terms of a shared class identity, as a “poor” person in need of employment; yet this shared identity implicitly rested on her new position within a patriarchal family where she was contributing to her husband’s household. This collective class support…
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Stylistic tests
Part I1. Find the word which is bookish in style:a. darkness b. harmonyc. foolish d. glad2. Find the word which is colloquial in style:a. parent b. fatherc. dad d. ancestor3. Find a non-literary word (slang):a. wife b. sisterc. missus d. mother4. Find a non-literary word (professionalism):a. a shop c. a…
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Familiar colloquial style isrepresented in spoken variety
Phonetic features:a) Casual and often careless pronunciation, use of deviant forms, e. g. gonna instead of going to, whatcha instead of what do you, dunno instead of don’t know.b) Use of reduced and contracted forms, e.g. you’re, they’ve, I’d.c) Omission of unaccented elements due to quick tempo ( you hear…
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Literary colloquial style
Phonetic features:a) Standard pronunciation in compliance (in accordance) with the national norm, enunciation (хорошая дикция).b) Phonetic compression of frequently used forms, e.g. it’s, don’t, I’ve.c) Omission of unaccented elements due to the quick tempo, e.g. you know him?Morphological features: Use of regular morphological features, e. g. evaluative suffixes deary, doggie,…
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Publicist (media) style
Phonetic features (in oratory):a) Standard pronunciation, wide use of prosody as a means of conveying the subtle shades of meaning, overtones and emotions.b) Phonetic compression.Morphological features:a) Frequent use of non-finite verb forms, such as gerund, participle, infinitive.b) Use of non-perfect verb forms.c) Omission of articles, link verbs, auxiliaries, pronouns, especially…
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Scientific/academic style
Morphological features:a) Terminological word building and word-derivation: neologism formation by affixation and conversion.b) Restricted use of finite verb forms.c) Use of the author’s we instead of I.d) Frequent use of impersonal constructions.Syntactical features:a) Complete and standard syntactical mode of expression.b) Syntactical precision to ensure the logical sequence of thought and…
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The style of official documents
Morphological features:a) Adherence to the norm, sometimes outdated or even archaic, e. g. in legal documents.Syntactical features:a) Use of long complex sentences with several types of coordination and subordination (up to 70 % of the text).b) Use of passive and participial constructions, numerous connectives.c) Use of objects, attributes and all…
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Functional stylistics
1. The notion of style in functional stylisticsThe notion of style has to do with how we use the language under specific circumstances for a specific purpose. The notion of using English, apart from using our knowledge of its linguistic structure also involves awareness of the numerous situations in which…
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Words of the colloquial layer
This layer also includes several subgroups:a) Colloquialisms or common colloquial words are the words that occupy an intermediate position between literary and non-literary stylistic layers and are used in conversational type of everyday speech (awfully sorry, a pretty little thing, teenager, flapper etc).They are usually used in private talks. Common…
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Stylistic classification of the English vocabulary
1. Words of the neutral layerThe word stock of any language may be represented as a definite system in which different aspects of words may be singled out as interdependent.Words may be grouped together on the basis of their common stylistic reference. Consider, for example, the following groups of words:inquire…
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Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
The principal criteria for classifying syntactical stylistic devices are:1) The juxtaposition of the parts of an utterance;2) The type of connection of the parts;3) The peculiar use of colloquial constructions;4) The transference of structural meaning.1. The devices built on the principle of juxtaposition are:a) Inversion (several types). Word-order is a…
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All about Oxymoron
It’s a device which consists in joining together words of contradictory meaning. In a laconic way oxymoron shows the existing discrepancy (противоречие) of the object. We distinguish the following types:Adjective + noun: sweet painAdjective + adjective: the biggest little town;Verb + preposition + noun: to ruin by civilization;Verb + adverb:…
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What is Irony?
Irony is a stylistic device also based on the simultaneous realization of two logical meanings – dictionary and contextual, but these two meanings stand in opposition to each other. A denomination is replaced by its opposite. The notion named and the notion meant are different.Example 19: It must be delightful…
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Lexical expressive means and stylistic devices
There are three big subdivisions in this class of devices and they all deal with the semantic natureof a word or phrase.I. Interaction of different types of a word’s meanings: dictionary, contextual, derivative, nominal, and emotive.A interplay of dictionary and contextual meaningsB interaction of primary and derivative meaningsC opposition of…
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Expressive means (EM) and stylistic devices (SD)
In linguistics there are different terms to denote those particular means by which a writer obtains his effect. Expressive means, stylistic means, stylistic devices and other terms are all used indiscriminately. For our purposes it is necessary to make a distinction between expressive means and stylistic devices.All stylistic means of…
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Linguistic basis of stylistics
1. The subject of StylisticsStylistics is a branch of linguistics which examines, analyses and classifies various phenomena of the vocabulary, grammar and phonetics from the point of view of their stylistic function. In other words it studies principles and effects of a choice and use of phonetic, lexical, grammatical language…
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