Lecture Stylistics as a science. Problems of stylistic research. Plan

4) parliamentary: liar – a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes, jackass/goose; dog, rat, swine/halfwit, Tory clot;
5) political: tension – uprising; undernourishment – starvation; capitalists – free enterprises; profit – savings; the building up of labour reserves – unemployment; dismissal/discharge/firing – the reorganization of the enterprise.
Hyperbole: The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in and the sun and the moon were made to give them light. (Dickens).
“He was so tall that I was not sure he had a face.” (O. Henry).
III. The subdivision comprises stable word combinations in their interaction with the context:
A cliche is an expression that has become hackneyed and trite: clockwork precision, crushing defeat, the whip and carrot policy, rosy dreams of youth, the patter of little feet, deceptively simple, effective guarantees, immediate issues, statement of policy, reliable sources, buffer zone, to grow by leaps and bounds, to withstand the test of time, to let bygones bygones, to be unable to see the wood for the trees, to upset the apple-cart, to have an ace upon one’s sleeve, the patter of the rain, part and parcel, a diamond in the rough.
Proverbs and sayings.
Typical features: rhythm, sometimes rhyme and/or alliteration. But the most characteristic feature of a proverb or a saying lies not in its formal linguistic expression, but in the content-form of the utter­ance: brevity+ the actual wording becomes a pattern which needs no new wording to suggest extensions of meaning which are contextual
Proverbs are brief statements showing in condensed form the accumulated life experience of the community and serving as conventional practical symbols for abstract ideas:
To cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Come! he said, milk’s spilt. (Galsworthy).
First come, first served.
Out of sight, out of mind.