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Part I. Intrion
General Notes on Style and Stylistics 9
Expressive Means (EM) and Stylistic Devices (SD) 25
General Notes on Functional Styles of Language 32
Varieties of Language 35
Brief Outline of the Development of the English Literary (Standard) language 41
Meaning from a Stylistic Point of View 57
Part II. Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary
General Considerations 70
Neutral, Common Literary and Common Colloquial Vocabulary 72
Special Literary Vocabulary 76
Terms 76
Poetic and Highly Literary Words 79
Archaic, Obsolescent and Obsolete Words 83
Barbarisms and Foreignisms 87
Literary Coinages (Including Nonce-Words) 92
Special Colloquial Vocabulary 104
Slang 104
Jargonisms 109
Professionalisms 113
Dialectal Words 116
Vulgar Words or Vulgarisms 118
Colloquial Coinages (Words and Meanings) 119
Part III. Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
General notes 123
Onomatopoeia 124
Alliteration 126
Rhyme 128
Rhythm 129
Part IV. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
Intentional Mixing of the Stylistic Aspect of Words 136
Interaction of Different Types of Lexical Meaning 138
Interaction of Primary Dictionary and Contextually Imposed Meanings 139
Metaphor 139
Metonymy 144
Irony 146
Interaction of Primary and Derivative Logical Meanings 148
Stylistic Devices Based on Polysemantic Effect, Zeugma and Pun. . . 148
Interaction of Logical and Emotive Meanings . . 153
Interjections and Exclamatory Words 154
The Epithet 157
Oxymoron 162
Interaction of Logical and Nominal Meanings 164
Antonomasia 164
Intensification of a Certain Feature or a Thing or Phenomenon 166
Simile 167
Periphrasis 169
Euphemism 173
Hyperbole 176
Peculiar Use of Set Expressions 177
The Cliché 177
Proverbs and Sayings 181
Epigrams 184
Quotations 186
Allusions 187
Decomposition of Set Phrases 189
Part V. Syntactical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
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