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

6. Stylistic function notion
The semantic structure (or the meaning) of a word consists of its grammatical meaning (noun, verb, adjective) and its lexical meaning. Lexical meaning can further on be subdivided into denotative (linked to the logical or nominative meaning) and connotative meanings. Connotative meaning is only connected with extra-linguistic circumstances such as the situation of communication and the participants of communication. Connotative meaning consists of four components:
1) emotive: express various feelings or emotions; the emotive component of meaning may be occasional or usual (i.e. inherent and adherent); inherent: interjections: adherent: He is a BIG boy already!
2) evaluative: charges the word with negative, positive, ironic or other types of connotation conveying the speaker’s attitude in relation to the object of speech; eg: to sneak - “to move silently and secretly, usu. for a bad purpose”;
3) expressive: either increases or decreases the expres­siveness of the message; eg.: “She was a small thin delicate thing with spectacles”; “intensifiers”, words like “absolutely, frightfully, really, quite”;
4) stylistic: a word possesses stylistic connotation if it belongs to a certain functional style or a spe­cific layer of vocabulary (such as archaisms, barbarisms, slang, jargon, etc). Stylistic connotation is usually immediately recogni­zable; eg.: yonder, slumber, thence immediately connote poetic or elevated writing; price index or negotiate assets are indicative of business language.
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