LyatipovaSabriye (401 ) comparative analysis of "syntactic stylistic devices" in english and russian 5111400 Foreign language and literature (English) Final qualification paper for academic Bachelor’s degree

2.2. Semantic and structural peculiarities of 
vulgarisms in English 
 
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The term vulgarism, as used to single out 
a definite group of words of non-standard 
English, is rather misleading. The ambiguity of 
the term apparently proceeds from the 
etymology of the word. Vulgar, as explained 
by the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, means
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a) words or names employed in ordinary 
speech;
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b) common, familiar;
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c) commonly current or prevalent, generally 
or widely disseminated. 

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the taboo and expressive words to this intent. [9, 45] 
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A comprehensive preparation phase before the
interpreting session (analysis of text factors,
knowledge of the distinctive style of the speaker,
external and situational variables) enables the 
interpreter to build the anticipation hypotheses and
to use the taboo lexicon effectively within their 
framework. Expressive language is perceived not only as 
a prototype of the verbal invariant transfer, but mainly 
as an information-dense cultural and linguistic element 
of the source text that supplies the interpreter with the 
material to compose an adequate target language 
output.
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Vulgar words are expletives and swear words of abusive 
character. For example: damn, bloody, hell, goddam. 

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Vulgarisms are specific language units charged with 
bright expressiveness and emotiveness. The tradition of 
using low colloquial elements (or invectives) dates back 
to the ancient times. The famous public speakers 
resorted to them for different purposes. Vulgarisms were 
powerful means of satire and flagellation in I. 
Kotliarevskyy’s, S. Rudanskyy’s, I. Nechuy-Levytskyy’s, I. 
Franko’s, I. Svitlychnyy’s, V.Vynnychenko’s, O.Dovzhenko’s, 
J.Andrukhovych’s prose.