Handouts on stylistics.pptVIP

Chapter 3 Stylistic functions of linguistic items --Periodic sentence with main thought appears near the end --loose sentence with basically no focus thus may be terminated anywhere in the sentence --a balanced sentence with equal weighting to the two halves of the sentence Chapter 4 Varieties in Relation to Regions Regional varieties --dialects --accents 4.1 introduction British English American English Choices of varieties for SL or FL Chapter 4 Varieties in Relation to Regions 4.2 A brief introduction to British English Old English: Anglo-saxon Middle English: with influences of Latin and French Modern English Chapter 4 Varieties in Relation to Regions 4.3 The appearance of American English The role of dictionary and grammar book The mechanism of its uniqueness Chapter 4 Varieties in Relation to Regions 4.4 Differences between BrE AmE 4.4.1 Differences in vocabulary 4.4.2 Differences in Grammar --the use of present perfect and past tense --the use of ‘have’ or ‘have got’ to indicate possession --the use of ‘got’ or ‘gotten’ Chapter 4 Varieties in Relation to Regions --the use of different prepositions --the use of different expressions 4.4.3 differences in spelling 4.4.4 differences in pronunciation 4.5 British regional dialects --Welsh English --Irish English --Cockney --Scouse --Geordie Chapter 4 Varieties in Relation to Regions 4.6 American regional dialects --Northern New England --NY city --Upper midwestern --Gerneral Southern Chapter 5 Varieties in relation to Media 5.2 Spoken vs written English --spontaneous conversation for spoken form whileformal writtings for written form on behalf of clear comparison 1) the lexical level: Spoken: simple, Anglo-saxon, monosyllabic words; phasal verbs; idioms and colloquialisms; vague terms; slangs; jargon Written: formal, abstract, Latinate words Chapter 5 Varieties in relation to Media 2) the syntactic level Spoken: simple sentences; short sentences; loose sentence structures; elliptical or incomplete s