英语文体学chapter2 Lexicology

英语文体学chapter2 Lexicology，内容有：Morphemic Devices、Lexical Devices、Play with meaning: lexical rhetorical devices.

Lexicology

• Morphemic Devices
  • Neologism
    • affixation, compounding, derivation, conversion, blending
  • Overregularity and High Frequency of Occcurence
    • repetition
• Lexical Devices
  • Selection of Words
    • use specialized words for special types of styles
  • Classification of words
    • genre,field,tenor,mode
  • Retorical Series
    • use concrete items to highlight
  • Word Implications
    • Words with Emotive Coloring
    • Synonymy
• Play with meaning: lexical rhetorical devices
  • Meaning Transference
    • Simile
      • "Maggie's brain is like an elephant's," Wangero said, laughing.
    • Metaphor
      • " Mama," Wangero said, sweet as a bird.
      • The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breath of his oratory as he should have.
    • Personification
      • Bitterness fed on the man Who had made the world laugh.
      • No anger, vindictiveness or moral conceit need preside over the removal of such dangers.
    • Synecdoche(提喻:部分与整体)
      • The case was defended by eloquent lips. Many hands make light work.
      • To defy the crown (king or queen)
  • Meaning Extension and Contraction
    • Hyperbole
      • The trial that rocked the world.
    • Understatement(含蓄/低调陈述):litotes(曲言)/ meiosis(克制陈述)
      • His recent book is no small accomplishment.
      • This tea isn't too bad.
    • Euphemism
      • ... it is not unreasonable to suppose that he also expressed his own desire to visit Beijing
  • Contradiction in logic
    • Oxymoron(矛盾修饰)
      • Dudlcy Ficld Malonc called my conviction a "victorious defeat".
      • Writing is busy idleness.
    • Paradox
      • Parting is such sweetness.
  • Meaning Conversion
    • Irony
      • I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.
  • Play on Homonymy
    • Pun(双关)
      • One shop announced: Darwin is Right -—- Inside.
    • Syllepsis.(一语双叙)
      • If we don 't hang together, we shall assuredly hang separately.