III Give phonetical analysis of the following sentence:
I’m very sorry to trouble you, but the manager has previously reserved this table.
1.Analyze the following vowel and consonant sounds according to the principles of vowel and consonant classifications: [i: ], [ ә], [æ:], [ ei], [p ], [l], [d], [ b].
2.Divide the words in the sentence into syllables and define the type of the syllables.
3.Find the cases of modifications of speech sounds in a given sentence and define their type (i.e. assimilation, accommodation, elision, loss of plosion, lateral plosion etc. /.
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Case № 6
I Formulation of the case-task:
Semantic change of English words.
The development and change of the semantic structure of a word is always a result of qualitative and quantitative development of the vocabulary. All the types of semantic change depend on some comparison of the earlier and new meaning of the given word.
Semantic change of words are observed in changes of meaning resulting from the development of new notions and things. Language is powerfully affected by social, political, economic, cultural and technical change. The word being a linguistic realization of notion, changes with the progress of human consciousness. This process is reflected in the development of lexical meaning.
II Try to find out the solutions of the following problems:
1.Give a full description of semantic change of English words on the basis of the given information. Make use of the tables, schemes, diagrams etc.
2.Characterize the causes of semantic change.
3.Speak about of types of metaphors giving examples
4.Speak about metonymy and functional change of words in the English language.
III Make lexical analysis of the following sentence:
I have been green, too, Miss. Eyre, -ay, grass green; not a more vernal tint freshens you now than once freshened me (Ch.Bronte).
1.Define which words are used in direct meaning, and which are used in their transferred meaning.
2.Find the cases of semantic change in the given sentence.
3.Characterize some words from polysemantic nature (what other meanings may have this or that word in this sentence)/.
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