Define the function of the following individual neologisms. 


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Define the function of the following individual neologisms.



 

1. Sbe was a young and unbeautiful woman. (I. Sh..) 2. I'll disown you, I' lldisinherit you, I'llungctyou! and damn me, if ever I callyou back again!(Sh.) 3.Shewas... waiting for something to happen. Or for everything to unhappen. (Т. Н.) 4. She was... doing duty of her waitresshood. (T. H.) 5. Every man inhis hours of success, tasted godhood. (At. W.)6....tiny balls of fluff (chickens) passed on into seminaked pullethood and from that into dead henhood. (Sh. A.) 7. His youngness and singlemindedness were obvious enough. (S.) 8. But Miss Golightly, a fragile eyeful,... appeared relatively unconcerned. (Т. С.) 9. For a headful of reasons I refuse. (Т. С.)

10. It is the middle of a weekday morning with a stateful of sand and mountains around him. (A.M.) 11. His father... installed justly to make little boys feel littler and stupid boys aware of their stupidity. (St.) 12. You are becoming tireder and tireder. (H.) 13. "I love you mucher."
"Plenty mucher? Me tooer." (J. Br.) 14. Oh, it was the killingest thing you ever saw. (K.A.) 15. "Mr. Harnilton, you haven't any children, have you?" "Well, no. And I'm sorry about that, I guess. I'm sor­riest about that." (St.)16. Sometimes we are sleepy and fall asleep together in a corner, sometimes we are very hungry, sometimes we are a little frightened, but what is oftenest hard upon us is the cold. (D.)17. You're goddamndest boy. (I. Sh.) 18. She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. (St.) 19. I've been asked to appear in Rostand's wonderful fairy play.Wouldn't it be nice if you Englished it for us? (K.) 20. So: I'm not just talented. I'm geniused. (Sh. D.)

 

 

b) Colloquial words

 

Exercises

 

State the function of slang in the following examples, also paying attention to the morphological and syntactical characteristics of slang units and semantic and structural changes some of them underwent to become a slang expression.

 

1. "I'm the first one saw her. Out at Santa Anita she's hanging around the track every day. I'm interested: pro­fessionally I find out she's some jock's regular, she's living with the shrimp, I get the jock told Drop it if he don't want conversation with the vice boys: see, the kid's fifteen. But stylish: she's okay, she comes across. Even when she's wearing glasses this thick; even when she opens her mouth and you don't know if she's a hillbilly or an Okie or what, I still don't. My guess, nobody'll ever know where she came from. (T. C.)

2. Bejees, if you think you can play me for an easy mark, you've come to the wrong house. No one ever played Harry Hope for a sucker! (O'N.)

3. A cove couldn't be too careful. (D. C.)

4. I've often thought you'd make a corking good actress.(Dr.)

5. "When he told me his name was Herbert I nearly burst out laughing. Fancy calling anyone Herbert. A scream, I call it." (S.M.)

6. I steered him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a wall and gave him a frisk.(O'N.)

7."I live upstairs." The answer seemed to explain enough to relax him. "You got the same layout?" "Much smaller."He tapped ash on the floor. "This is a dump. This is un­believable. But the kid don't know how to live even when she's got the dough." (T. C.)

8. It is. But not so much the hope of booze, if you can believe that. I've got the blues and Hickey's a great one to make a joke of everything and cheer you up. (O'N.)

9. "George," she said, "you're a rotten liar... The part about the peace of Europe is all bosh." (Ch.)

10. She came in one night, plastered, with a sun-burned man, also plastered... (J. O'H.)

11. "Your friend got stinko and Fane had to send out for a bouncer." (J. O'H.)

12. "That guy just aint hep," Mazzi said decisively. "He's as unhep as a box, I can't stand people who aint hep." (J.)

 

 

2. Specify hackneyed vulgarisms and vulgarisms proper; determine the kind of emotion which had caused their usage.

 

1....a hyena crossed the open on his way around the hill. "That bastard crosses there every night," the man said.(H.)

2. Suddenly Percy snatched the letter... "Give it back to me, you rotten devil," Peter shouted. "You know damn well it doesn't say that. I'll kick your big fat belly. I swear I will." (J. Br.)

3. "Look at the son of a bitchdown there: pretending he's one of the boys today." (J.)

4. "How are you, Cartwright? This is the very devil of a business, you know. The very devil of a business." (Ch.)

5. "Poor son of a bitch," he said. "I feel sorry for him, and I'm sorry I was bastardly." (J.)

6. I'm no damned fool! I couldn't go on believing for­ever that gang was going to change the world by shoot­ing off their loud traps on soapboxes and sneaking around blowing up a lousy building or a bridge! I got wise, it was all a crazy pipe dream! (O'N.)

 

 

3. Differentiate professional and social jargonisms; classify them according to the narrow sphere of us­age, suggest a terminological equivalent where possible.

 

1. She came out of her sleep.in a nightmare struggle for breath, her eyes distended in horror, the strangling cough tearing her again and again... Bart gave her the needle. (D. C.)

2. I'm here quite often—taking patients to hospitals for majors and so on. (S. L.)

3. "I didn't know you knew each other," I said. "A long time ago it was," Jean said. "We did History Final together at Coll." (K. A.)

4. They have graduated from Ohio State together, him­self with an engineering degree. (J.)

5. The arrangement was to keep in touch by runners and by walkie-talkie. (St. H)

 

II) Stylistic devices

 

a) Epithet

 

Exercises

 

1. Discuss the structure of epithets.

 

1. "Can you tell me what lime thai game starts today?" The girl gave him a lipsticky smile. (S.)

2. The day was windless, unnaturally mild; since mor­ning the sun had tried to penetrate the cloud, and now above the Mall, the sky was still faintly luminous, col-oured like water over sand. (Hut.)

3.Silent early morning dogs parade majestically peck­ing and choosing judiciously whereon to pee. (St.)

4. The hard chairs were the newlywed-suit kind, often on show in the windows of shops. (K. A.)

5.... whispered the spinster aunt with true spinster-aunt-like envy... (D.)

6. I closed my eyes, smelling the goodness of her sweat and the sunshine-in-the-breakfast-room smell of her laven­der-water. (J. Br.)

7. Stark stared at him reflectively, that peculiar about to laugh, about to cry, about to sneer expression on his face. (J.)

8. Eden was an adept at bargaining, but somehow all his cunning left him as he faced this Gibraltar of a man.(E.D.B.)

9. At his full height he was only up to her shoulder,a little dried-up pippin of a man. (G.)

10. "Thief," Pilon shouted. "Dirty pig of an untrue friend." (St.)

11. An ugly gingerbread brute of a boy with a revolting grin and as far asI was able to ascertain, no redeeming qualities of any sort. (P G W.)..

12.A breeze... blew curtains in and out like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling. (Sc. F.)

 

 

b) Metonymy

 

Exercises

 



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