Part I introduction 6 I. General notes on style and stylistics 6

PART I INTRODUCTION 6
I. GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE AND Stylistics 6
2. EXPRESSIVE MEANS (EM) AND STYLISTIC DEVICES (SD) 21
3. GENERAL NOTES ON FUNCTIONAL STYLES OF LANGUAGE 28
4. VARIETIES OF LANGUAGE 30
5. A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LITERARY (STANDARD) LANGUAGE 36
6. MEANING FROM A STYLISTIC POINT OF VIEW 51
PART II STYLISTIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY 62
I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 62
2. NEUTRAL, COMMON LITERARY AND COMMON COLLOQUIAL VOCABULARY 64
3. SPECIAL LITERARY VOCABULARY 68
a) Terms 68
b) Poetic and Highly Literary Words 71
c) Archaic, Obsolescent and Obsolete Words 74
d) Barbarisms and Foreignisms 78
e) Literary Coinages (Including Nonce-Words) 83
4. SPECIAL COLLOQUIAL VOCABULARY 95
a) Slang 95
b) Jargonisms 100
c) Professionalisms 103
d) Dialectal words 105
e) Vulgar words or vulgarisms 108
f) Colloquial coinages (words and meanings) 108
PART Ш PHONETIC EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES 112
GENERAL NOTES 112
Onomatopoeia 113
Alliteration 114
Rhyme 116
Rhythm 117
PART IV LEXICAL EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES 123
A. INTENTIONAL MIXING OF THE STYLISTIC ASPECT OF WORDS 123
B. INTERACTION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF LEXICAL MEANING 125
1. INTERACTION OF PRIMARY DICTIONARY AND CONTEXTUALLY IMPOSED MEANINGS 126
Metaphor 126
Metonymy 131
Irony 133
3. INTERACTION OF LOGICAL AND EMOTIVE MEANINGS 139
Interjections and Exclamatory Words 140
The Epithet 143
Oxymoron 148
4. INTERACTION OF LOGICAL AND NOMINAL MEANINGS 150
Antonomasia 150
C. INTENSIFICATION OF A CERTAIN FEATURE OF A THING OR PHENOMENON 152
Simile 152
Periphrasis 154
"The hoarse, dull drum would sleep, And Man be happy yet." (Byron 156
Euphemism 158
Hyperbole 160
D. PECULIAR USE OF SET EXPRESSIONS 161
The Cliche 162
Proverbs and Sayings 165
Epigrams 167
Quotations 169
Allusions 171
Decomposition of Set Phrases 173