Assignments. Theme. Morphological Stylistics

Practice 3

Theme. Morphological Stylistics

Aims:to define the notions of morphemic repetition; to identify the stylistic value of transposition of parts of speech.

Plan

1. Morphemic repetition

2. The notion of transposition of parts of speech.

3. Transposition of nouns.

4. Stylistic use of the articles.

5. Transposition of pronouns.

6. Transposition of adjectives.

7. Transposition of verbs.

Literature recommended

1. Мороховский А. Н., Воробьева О. П. и др. Стилистика английс­кого языка. - К., 1991. - С. 70-92.

2. Арнольд И. В. Стилистика современного английского языка. -М., 1990.-С. 139-159.

3. Ковалев В. П. Языковые выразительные средства русской худо­жественной прозы. - К., 1981. - С. 128-146.

4. Кухаренко В.А.Практикум зі стилістики англійської мови: Підручник. – Вінниця. «Нова книга», 2000 – c. 11-14.

5. Maltzev V. A. Essays on English stylistics. - Minsk, 1984. - P. 76-79.

Assignments

1. State the function of the following cases of morphemic repetition:

1. She unchained, unbolted and unlocked the door. (A.B.)

2. It was there again, more clearly than before: the terrible expression of pain in her eyes; unblinking, unaccepting, unbelieving pain. (D.U.)

3. We were sitting in the cheapest of all the cheap restaurants that cheapen that very cheap and noisy street, the Rue des Petites Champs in Paris. (H.)

4. Young Blight made a great show of fetching from his desk a long thin manuscript volume with a brown paper cover, and running his finger down the day's appointments, murmuring: "Mr. Aggs, Mr. Baggs, Mr. Caggs, Mr. Daggs, Mr. Faggs, Mr. Gaggs, Mr. Boffin. Yes, sir, quite right. You are a little before your time, sir." (D.)

5. Young Blight made another great show of changing the volume, taking up a pen, sucking it, dipping it, and running over previous entries before he wrote. As, "Mr. Alley, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Galley, Mr. Dalley, Mr. Falley, Mr. Galley, Mr. Halley, Mr. Lalley, 'Mr. Malley. And Mr. Boffin." (D.)

6. New scum, of course, has risen to take the place of the old, but the oldest scum, the thickest scum, and the scummiest scum has come from across the ocean. (H.)

7. At the time light rain or storm darked the fortress I watched the coming of dark from the high tower. The fortress with its rocky view showed its temporary darkling life of lanterns. (Jn. H.)

8. Laughing, crying, cheering, chaffing, singing, David Rossi's people brought him home in triumph. (H.C.)

9. In a sudden burst of slipping, climbing, jingling, clinking and talking, they arrived at the convent door. (D.)

10. The procession then re-formed; the chairmen resumed their stations, and the march was re-commenced. (D.)

11. The precious twins - untried, unnoticed, undirected - and I say it quiet with my hands down - undiscovered. (S.)

12. We are overbrave and overfearful, overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers, we're oversentimental and realistic. (P.St.)

13. There was then a calling over of names, and great work of singeing, sealing, stamping, inking, and sanding, with exceedingly blurred, gritty and undecipherable results. (D.)

14. The Major and the two Sportsmen form a silent group as Henderson, on the floor, goes through a protracted death agony, moaning and gasping, shrieking, muttering, shivering, babbling, reaching upward toward nothing once or twice for help, turning, writhing, struggling, giving up at last, sinking flat, and finally, after a waning gasp lying absolutely still. (Js.H.)

15. She was a lone spectator, but never a lonely one, because the warmth of company was unnecessary to her. (P. Ch.)

16. "Gentlemen, I put it to you"that this band is a swindle. This band is an abandoned band. It cannot play a good godly tune, gentlemen." (W.D.)

17. He wished she would not look at him in this new way. For things were changing, something was changing now, this minute, just when he thought they would never change again, just when he found a way to live in that changelessness. (R.W.)

18. Three million years ago something had passed this way, had left this unknown and perhaps unknowable symbol of its purpose, and had returned to the planets-or to the stars.(A. C.)

19. "Sit down, you dancing, prancing, shambling, scrambling fool parrot! Sit down!" (D.)

2. Analyze the morphemic structure and the purpose of creating the occasional words in the following examples:

1. The girls could not take off their panama hats because this was not far from the school gates and hatlessness was an offence. (M. Sp.)

2. David, in his new grown-upness, had already a sort of authority.(І.М.)

3. That fact had all the unbelievableness of the sudden wound. (R.W.)

4. Suddenly he felt a horror of her otherness. (J.B.)

5. Lucy wasn't Willie's luck. Or his unluck either. (R.W.)

6. She was waiting for something to happen or for everything to un-happen. (Т. Н.)

7. He didn't seem to think that that was very funny. But he didn't seem to think it was especially unfunny. (R.W.)

8. "You asked him."

"I'm un-asking him," the Boss replied. (R.W.)

9. He looked pretty good for a fifty-four-year-old former college athlete who for years had overindulged and underexercized. (D.U.)

10. She was a young and unbeautiful woman. (I.Sh.)

11. The descriptions were of two unextraordinary boys: three and a half and six years old. (D.U.)

12. The girl began to intuit what was required of her. (Jn. H.)

13. "Mr. Hamilton, you haven't any children, have you?"

"Well, no. And I'm sorry about that, I guess. I am sorriest about that." (J. St.)

14. "To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna look's son!"(A.T.)

15. There were ladies too, en cheveux, in caps and bonnets, some of whom knew Trilby, and thee'd and thou'd with familiar and friendly affection, while others mademoiselle'd her with distant politeness and were mademoiselle's and madame'd back again. (D. du M.)

16. Parritt turns startledly. (O'N.)

17. The chairs are very close together - so close that the advisee almost touches knees with the adviser. (Jn.B.)

3. Find cases of transposition of nouns and comment on them:

1. They would put away the card-table and empty the ash-receivers with many "Oh, I beg your pardon's" and "No, no - I was in your way's." 2. "Madge, what's 'necessitas', masculine or feminine?" - "Why, feminine, of course." - "Why?" - "Why, she was the mother of invention." 3. "Who is your favor­ite classic novelist?" - "Thackeray." - "Great Scott!" - "Some think so; still I prefer Thackeray." 4. This is the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. Its members are called "Neurotics." 5. "Yes," prattled the elderly lady, "that is the Duke and Duchess; the couple behind them are the Mayor and the Mayoress, and those on the right are the Vicar and the-er-Vixen." 6. "If I speak of г. foot, and you show me your feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?” 7. The man I argued yesterday's expla­nation puzzled me greatly.

4. Analyse stylistic use of the articles:

1. A 'Drive Safe' sign: "It's better to be late, Mr. Motorist, than to be the late, Mr. Motorist." 2. Advertisement: "Lion tamer wants tamer lion." 3. I thought it was fine - especially the Chopin. 4. I don't want to turn into a Teddy Bolan. 5. I will never go to a Sahara. 6. Sun: Friend not Foe. 7. Slowly but surely man is conquering Nature.

5. Determine transposition of pronouns:

1. Are they going to take thee away? 2. They arrived at the fifth inning. "What's the score, Jim?" she asked a fan. "Nothing to nothing," was the reply. "Oh, goodly!" she exclaimed. "We haven't missed a thing!" 3. "So your son is in college? How is he making it?" - "To be exact, he isn't making it. I'm making it and he's spending it." 4. Chivalry is how you feel when vou're cold. 5. Sign on the wall of a research laboratory: "Consider the turtle - He doesn't make any progress unless he sticks his neck out." 6. The masculine pronouns are he, his_. him, but imagine the feminine she, shis_, and shim!7. "Correct this sentence: 'it was me that spilt the ink. '" - "It wasn't me that spilt the ink."

6. Point out and explain cases of transposition of ad­jectives:

1. "I want you to teach my son a foreign language." - "Certainly, mad­am, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish -?" - "Which is the most foreign?" 2. Landlady: "I think you had better board elsewhere." Boarder: "Yes, I often have." Landlady: "Often had what?" Boarder: "Had better board elsewhere." 3. "What are the comparative and superlative of bad, Berty?" - "Bad - worse - dead." 4. "Unmarried?" - "Twice." 5. I don't like Sunday evenings: I feel so Mondayish.

7. Pick out and analyse transposition of verbs:

1. "An' what's more, I ain't 'ad a day's illness in my life!" - "Lor lumme, what on earth d'yer find to talk about?" 2. "And your brother, who was trying so hard to get a government job, what is he doing now?" - "Nothing. He got the job." 3. "I would like to settle that little debt of mine." - "I'm very glad to hear it!" - "I said I would like to; but I can't." 4. "I must say these are fine biscuits!" Exclaimed the young husband. "How could you say those are fine biscuits?" inquired the young wife's mother, in a private interview. "I didn't say they were fine. I only said I must say so." 5. A man who is always complaining is the easiest man to satisfy because nothing satisfies him. 6. At fifteen I'm an orphan, and Vic moves in. "From now on you'll do as I tell you," he says. It impressed me. 7. "Can you tell me where this road goes, please?" - "It don't go anywhere; it just stops where it is." 8. "I'm taking political economy at college." - "That's a useless course. Why learn to econ­omize in politics? It's not being done." 9. "Waiter!" - "Yes, sir." - "What's this?" - "It's bean soup, sir." - "No matter what it's been. What is it now?" 10.1 said, "This deed, sir, will you do?" And soon the deed was dod! 11. "What would you do if you were in my shoes?" - "Polish them!" 12. "Does a doctor doctor a doctor according to the doctored doctor's doctrine or doctoring, or does the doctor doing the doctrine doctor the other doctor according to his own doctoring doctrine?" 13. "If we forget, then we've forgotten, But things we wet are never wotten, And houses let cannot be lotten." 14. "So you're , not going to Paris, this year?" - "No - it's London we're not going to this year; it was Paris we didn't go to last year!"

8. Analyse stylistic value of adverbs:

1. "Her husband didn't leave her much when he died, did he?" - "No; but he left her very often when he was alive." 2. "Shay, pardon me, offisher, but where am I?" - "You're on the corner of Broadway and Forty-second Street." - "Cut out the details. What town am I in?" 3. "Your hair wants cutting badly, sir," said a barber insinuatingly to a customer. "No, it doesn't," replied the man in the chair "it wants cutting nicely. You cut it badly last time." 4. Jane was terrifically beautiful. 5. He seemed prosperous, extremely mar­ried and unromantic.

9. Define stylistic value of morphological transposi­tion in the following sentences:

1. Roll on, thou dark and deep blue Ocean - roll! 2. What were you talking about to that old mare downstairs? 3. The real war was not between the Bill Davidsons and the Jean Duvals and the Hans Mullers [...] (тобто англійцями, французами і німцями). 4. The blonde I had been dancing with's name was Bernice - Crabs or Krebs. 5. A world without goodness - it'd be Paradise. But it wouldn't no more than now. The only paradises were fools' paradises, ostriches' paradises. 6. Waters on a starry night are beautiful and fair. 7. He was engaged to be married to a Miss Hubbard. 8. You are not the Andrew Manson I married. 9. It was a dead leaf, deader than the deadest tree leaf. 10. You have come from Them to spy on me. I told my uncle that the next one would suffer. And you're him. 11. A great pity! Surely something could be done! One must not take such situations lying down. She walks on, and reached a station, hot and cross. 12. You can never know what you can do till you try. 13. I don't want to write; I want to live. What does she (I) mean by that. It's hard to say. 14. All the people like us are We, and everyone else is they. 15. "And what are we going to do now, escape?" the warder asked the prisoner. 16. You're burning yourself out. And for what? 17. I'm going there tomorrow. 18. The auditorium is quite the largest in the world. 19. She is terribly pretty.