Lexicological analysis
Lexicological analysis of the extract from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Light that Failed”
Contents
1. The functional style
2. The variants of English
3. Etymological analysis
4. Polysemy
5. Grammatical meaning
6. Contextual analysis
7. Componential analysis
8. Homonymy
9. Synonymy
10. Antonymy
11. Hypero-hyponimic relations
12. Word-formation
13. Idioms
14. Phrasal verbs
15. Morphological analysis
16. Resources
17. Dictionaries
They headed for a certain tree that Dick knew well, and they sat down to think, because his legs were trembling under him and there was cold fear at the pit of his stomach.
'How could it have come without any warning? It's as sudden as being shot. It's the living death, Binkie. We're to be shut up in the dark in one year if we're careful, and we shan't see anybody, and we shall never have anything we want, not though we live to be a hundred!' Binkie wagged his tail joyously. 'Binkie, we must think. Let's see how it feels to be blind.' Dick shut his eyes, and flaming commas and Catherine-wheels floated inside the lids. Yet when he looked across the Park the scope of his vision was not contracted. He could see perfectly, until a procession of slow-wheeling fireworks defiled across his eyeballs.
“Little dorglums, we aren’t at all well. Let’s go home. If only Torp were back, now!”
1. Functional style
The analyzed text is an extract from a Rudyard Kipling’s novel called “The Light that Failed”. The selection of words that the author had chosen here refers this extract to the belles-letters style. The text features the vocabulary typical for the literary variant of the English language. The first part of the extract contains a monologue of the main character Pip. The author liberally uses such peculiar expressions like living death, flaming commas, as sudden as being shot, shut up in the dark in order to create the certain atmosphere of a person going blind for a reader to experience.
2. The variant of English
None of the
Contents
1. The functional style
2. The variants of English
3. Etymological analysis
4. Polysemy
5. Grammatical meaning
6. Contextual analysis
7. Componential analysis
8. Homonymy
9. Synonymy
10. Antonymy
11. Hypero-hyponimic relations
12. Word-formation
13. Idioms
14. Phrasal verbs
15. Morphological analysis
16. Resources
17. Dictionaries
They headed for a certain tree that Dick knew well, and they sat down to think, because his legs were trembling under him and there was cold fear at the pit of his stomach.
'How could it have come without any warning? It's as sudden as being shot. It's the living death, Binkie. We're to be shut up in the dark in one year if we're careful, and we shan't see anybody, and we shall never have anything we want, not though we live to be a hundred!' Binkie wagged his tail joyously. 'Binkie, we must think. Let's see how it feels to be blind.' Dick shut his eyes, and flaming commas and Catherine-wheels floated inside the lids. Yet when he looked across the Park the scope of his vision was not contracted. He could see perfectly, until a procession of slow-wheeling fireworks defiled across his eyeballs.
“Little dorglums, we aren’t at all well. Let’s go home. If only Torp were back, now!”
1. Functional style
The analyzed text is an extract from a Rudyard Kipling’s novel called “The Light that Failed”. The selection of words that the author had chosen here refers this extract to the belles-letters style. The text features the vocabulary typical for the literary variant of the English language. The first part of the extract contains a monologue of the main character Pip. The author liberally uses such peculiar expressions like living death, flaming commas, as sudden as being shot, shut up in the dark in order to create the certain atmosphere of a person going blind for a reader to experience.
2. The variant of English
None of the