THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ENGLISH STYLISTICS Lecture on English Stylistics 4th year of study N. P. Izotova‚ PhD LECTURE OUTLINE Stylistics as a linguistic discipline: its aims and subject matter. Main schools of modern stylistics. Links of stylistics with other branches of linguistics. LECTURE OUTLINE Key concepts of stylistics: Style; Foregrounding; Stylistic neutrality and Stylistic coloring; Norm and its violation. Types of norms; Context. Types of context; Image and
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taught in schools.(Candice‚ 2006) There are lots of studies that proves that the first language have a profound affect on learning the second language (Carter‚2001). In hong kong‚ their first language is Cantonese. And there are differences in phonology between Cantonese and English. First‚ unlike English‚ Cantonese is logographic. Because they learn
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History of English in the Philippines Although the first exposure to English was in 1762 to 1764 when the British invaded Manila‚ English from that time never had any lasting influence. English was assimilated when the United States took over the Philippines. In 1898‚ Spain ceded control of the Philippines to the United States under the Treaty of Paris‚ and thereafter the Americans controlled the Philippines until it gained its independence in 1946. The Americans established a system of public education
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Namrata Savaliya “ESL Students” "Anxiety is a basic human emotion consisting of fear and uncertainty" (Sarason‚ 1988). Anxiety has its good and bad sides. On the one hand it helps avoid dangerous events that can be life threatening. On the other hand it causes people to freeze as they avoid non-dangerous situations. The mind cannot distinguish between what is life threatening or just a stressful situation. "One such event [that causes minds to freeze but is not dangerous] is testing" (Harris
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establish clearly what the meaning of the term “SLA” is. SLA refers to the subconscious or conscious processes by which a language other than mother tongue is learnt in a natural or a tutored or a classroom setting; it covers the development of phonology‚ lexis‚ grammar‚ pragmatics and other knowledge . There are two distinctions concerning the definition of SLA that need to be attached great importance so that what positions researchers have taken up in order to study how an L2 is learnt will
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Psycholinguistic peculiarities of oral speech Psycholinguistic or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enables humans to acquire‚ use and comprehend and produce language. Psycholinguistics covers the cognitive processes that make it possible to generate a grammatical and meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures as well as the processes that make it possible to understand utterances‚ words‚ texts. Psycholinguistics
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focuses on the system of ruled followed by the users of a language. It includes the study of morphology (the formation and composition of words)‚ syntax (the formation and composition of phrases and sentences from these words)‚ and phonology (sound system). Phonetics is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds and nonspeech sounds‚ and how they are produced and perceived. This paper is going to concentrate on part of morphology word formation‚ of the English
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GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION FUNCTION(s) SPEAKING LISTENING READING WRITING OTHER (Please specify – e.g. revision/testing etc.) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Main Aims: By the end of the lesson the learners will be able to Pronounce and use in context new vocabulary with the phoneme /ə/ and recognise the stress in new vocabulary Subsidiary aims: By the end of the lesson the
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Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 4 (1991): 145-62 Stress and Rhythm in English Maria-Josep Solé Sabater Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona ABSTRACT This paper studies the role played by stress and rhythm in English. The effects of stress on the phonetic realization of segments‚ the morphological and syntaclic function of elemcnts and the structuring of information in the sentencc are considercd. English rhythm is studied and the factors that contribute to maintain a regular stress-timed rhythm are
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Morphology ‘If language was just a random collection of words‚ you couldn’t acquire it‚ you couldn’t learn it and you’d be imprisoned in the here and now because you couldn’t talk about what was‚ what might be and what will be…’ You couldn’t construct complete and coherent texts….you’d be in a ‘me Tarzan – you Jane’ situation‚ swinging from the wordtrees‚ pointing at things with little labels on them to try and make your partner understand.’ The myths of grammar (Crystal 2004)
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