The lofty elevated lexicon and poetic style in the works of Samuel Johnson - Курсовая работа

THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION THE MOSCOW POWER ENGINEERING INSTITUTE (Technical University) THE INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS Department of Applied Linguistics and Translating Techniques TERM PAPER SPECIALITY «Stylistics» Subject The Lofty/Elevated Lexicon and Poetic Style in the Works of Samuel Johnson Performed by: Student: Ryabov а.Yu. Supervisor: Rodionova L.Yu. Moscow 2011 Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Theoretical part 1.1 Stylistics and Styles of Language 1.2 Belles-lettres style, poetry and stylistic devices 1.3 Translation pragmatics Chapter 2. Practical part Conclusion Bibliography Introduction To this day the work of English poets of 18 century left to be very popular. Such poets` as Ben Johnson, Arnold Matthew, Thomas Gud poetry is known in many countries over the world. The given project is devoted to Samuel Johnson, not fairly forgotten and almost not translated into Russian English poet of Age of the Enlightenment, lexicographer and critic. The fact that Samuel Johnson had what is known as the syndrome of Turette is well-known now, but in 18 century this kind of insanity had not been medically described. And because of his rough statements towards Scotland he deserved their hatred. Interesting that all contradictions of his epoch were embodied in Johnson. Johnson was a person of golden mean - and after all it was necessary for English bourgeoisie to struggle ideologically against oligarchy. To get acquainted more closely with his poetry it is necessary: 1 To classify stylistic devices. 2 To сonsider stylistic used by Samuel Johnson. 3 To give their definitions. 4 To analyse Samuel Johnson poems. 5 To give my own point of view about devices. First of all, what is stylistics? The definition of this term and its classification will help us to consider the character of stylistic devices used by Johnson in his poetry. Stylistics is a philological discipline studying unequal principles of choice and ways of the language unit`s organization in the uniform semantic and composite whole (the text). Here is a definition of stylistics given by the Russian linguist ValeriyGurevich: «In different situations of communication people use different manners of expressing their thoughts. Stylistics is a branch of linguistics that studies the various functional styles of speech and also the various expressive means and devices of language. Appart from that, some linguists apply the term “stylistics” to the study of various stylistic peculiarities of the language of works of function for example it`s the publicist and belle - letters styles, which have the function of producing an emotional impact on the listeners»[6]. And the other linguist whose opinion we will consider is IlyaGolperin. In his book he writes: «The subject and stylistics maintenance as a part of science about language, are not exactly defined till now. That is why the term “stylistics” may be understand differently. And nevertheless the majority of linguists concur that the linguistic stylistics deal with such terms as: Esthetic functions of language, expressive means of language, synonymic ways of thought expression, emotional colouring speeches»[2]. Actually many scholars hold that the term stylistics has not entirely been defined, nevertheless it is known that the stylistics is the part of science about the language, studying variations of language expressions caused by their belonging to this or that language style. And of course language as a social phenomenon performs various functions connected with this or that sphere of human activity. To perform these functions, separate varieties of language have been developed and formed. Variants of a literary language which are caused by various spheres of dialogue, are called functional styles of language. Thus we can suggest a classification of speech styles. Here is the stylistics classification of the English language as presented by YurySkrebnev: «1 Belles-Lettres style (genre of creative writing) -Poetry -Emotive Prose -The drama 2 Publicisticstyle -Oratory and Speeches -The Essay -Articles 3 Newspaper style (mass media) -Brief News Items -Headlines -Advertisements and Announcements -The Editorial 4 Scientific style (proce, brochures, articles, other scientific publications) 5 Official style (documents and papers)»[7] Such items as lofty/elevated lexicon and poetry style form a part of Belles Lettres style. We will consider their definitions and properties in the theoretical part of the project, and in the practical part we will carry out an analysis of their usage in Samuel Johnsons poetry. Chapter 1 - Theoretical 1.1 Stylistics and Styles of Language As it was already said, the stylistics is the study and interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective. But it`s too short definition. To understand this term more profoundly we should examine it more thoroughly. First of all we can subdivide the stylistics and carry out the classification. It will be the Fu