Check yourself test 1

Check Yourself Test 1 1. What is stylistics?

2. What types of stylistics are distinguished?

3. What disciplines is stylistics connected with?

4. Where does the word “style” come from?

5. Define the term “functional style”.

6. What is a norm in linguistics?

7. What is the correlation between an invariant and variants?

8. What types does context fall into?

9. What does the dichotomy of language and speech consist in?

10. Define expressive means of a language.

11. In what way is intensification achieved in expressive means?

12. Enumerate the types of expressive means.

13. What is a stylistic device?

14. Define a functional style.

15. What is Galperin’s classification of functional styles? Do you know any other classification of functional styles of the English language?

16. What substyles do functional styles fall into?

17. What types of meaning are distinguished in linguistics and correspondingly in stylistics?

19. Define the term “polysemanticism”.

20. Give the definition of a sign.

21. What is a word?

22. How do you understand the terms “imagery” and “image”?

23. How do we differentiate between logical, emotive and nominal meanings?

24. What are contextual meanings of a word?

25. What is the correlation between the denotational and the connotational meanings? What are the types of the latter?