INTRODUCTION TO TEXTUAL ANALYSIS Summer semester 2018 May 28 FINAL REVISION Answer the following questions: 1. Define stylistics. 2. How would you define functional styles in stylistics? 3. List the most important 'types' of stylistics. 4. Define the concept of idiolect. How about individual style? 5. Which relevant notions of context in stylistics do you know? 6. What are expressive means of language? 7. What is a stylistic device? 8. List the five major functional styles. 9. How would you define meaning from a stylistic point of view? 10. Define and explain the concept of seme. 11. How do we divide the word stock of any natural lamguage? 12. What are neologisms? 13. What are jargonisims? 14. What is the difference between syntagmatic and paradigmatic stylistics? 15. List tthe communicative types of sentences and provide examples of each type. Practical task 1 The Arrow and the Song HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. 1. 2. 3. 4.
What is the central metaphor of the poem? How does it 'work'? Where in the song can you find stylistic repetition? Why is the repetition there? Find an example of aliteration in the poem. Explain how grammatical cohesion contributes to the overall message of the poem. Illustrate with examples from the text. 1
Practical task 2 No phone call was complete before each had made the other wretched. The problem, as Pip saw it—the essence of the handicap she lived with; the presumable cause of her inability to be effective at anything—was that she loved her mother. Pitied her; suffered with her; warmed to the sound of her voice; felt an unsettling kind of nonsexual attraction to her body; was solicitous even of her mouth chemistry; wished her greater happiness; hated upsetting her; found her dear. This was the massive block of granite at the center of her life, the source of all the anger and sarcasm that she directed not only at her mother but, more and more selfdefeatingly of late, at less appropriate objects. When Pip got angry, it wasn’t really at her mother but at the granite block. 1. What kind of stylistic device is employed in the underlined part of the above text? 2. Explain and exemplify how grammatical cohesion contributes to the meaning of the text (sentence structure and ordering, the choice of tenses, pronouns, etc). 3. Can you reconstruct information about the relationship between the two characters (who are the two characters?) which is only implied, but not stated expilicly? Explain your answer.
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