Theory revision. 1. What can you say about the meaning of a word and its relation to the concept of an entity?

1. What can you say about the meaning of a word and its relation to the concept of an entity?

2. What types of lexical meaning do you know and what stipulates their existence and differentiation?

3. What connotational meanings do you know? Dwell on each of them, proving your own examples.

4. What is the role of the context in meaning actualization?

5. What registers of communication are reflected in the stylistic differentiation of the vocabulary?

6. Speak about general literary words illustrating your elaboration with examples from nineteenth- and twentieth- century prose.

7. What are the main subgroups of special literary words?

8. What do you know of terms, their structure, meaning, functions?

9. What are the fields of application of archaic words and forms?

10. Can you recognize general colloquial words in a literary text? Where do they mainly occur?

11. What are the main characterises of slang?

12. What do you know of professional and social jargonisms?

13. What connects the stock of vulgarisms and social history?

14. What are the place and the role of dialectal words in the national language? in the literary text?

15. To provide answers to the above questions find words belonging to different stylistic groups and subgroups:

a) in the dictionary, specifying its stylistic mark ("label");

b) in your reading material, specifying the type of discourse, where you found it-authorial speech (dialogue, narration), description, etc.

I. Speak about the difference between the contextual and the dictionary meanings of italicized words:

1. Mr. James Duffy lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as.far as possible from the city of which he was the citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modem and pretentious.

2. He does all our insurance examining and they say he's some doctor.

3. He seemed prosperous, extremely married and unromantic.

4. "What do you think?" The question pops their heads up.

5. We tooled the car into the street and eased it into the rack of folks.

6. He inched the car forward.

7. "Of course it was considered a great chance for me, as he is so rich. And-and-we drifted into a sort of understanding - I suppose I should call it an engagement -"

"You may have drifted into it; but you will bounce out of it, my pettikins, if I am to have anything to do with it».

II. State the type and fraction of literary words in the following examples:

1. "I must decline to pursue this painful discussion. It is not pleasant to my feelings; it is repugnant to my feelings».

2. "I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. As a man sows so let him reap».

3. Isolde the Slender had suitors in plenty to do her lightest hest. Feats of arms were done daily for her sake. To win her love suitors were willing to vow themselves to perdition. But Isolde the Slender was heedless of the court thus paid to her.

III. Think of the type of additional information about the speaker or communicative situation conveyed by the following general and special colloquial words:

1. "She's engaged. Nice guy, too. Though there’s a slight difference in height. I’d say a foot, her favor».

"You know Brooklyn?"

"No. I was never there. But I had a buddy at Myer was from Brooklyn».

2. I didn’t t really do anything this time. Just pulled the dago out of the river. Like all dagos, he couldn't swim. Well the fellow was sort of grateful about it. Hung around like a dog. About six months later he died of fever. I was with him. Last thing, just as he was pegging out, he beckoned me and whispered some excited jargon about a secret.

3. "Here we are now," she cried, returning with the tray. "And don't look so miz».

4. "What’s the dif," he vented to know.