Group the given coordinative compound words into: a) reduplicative compounds; b) phonically varied rhythmic twin forms.
a)blah-blah, chi-chi, hush-hush, goody-goody,ha-ha.
b)walkie-talkie, easy-peasy, riff-raff, silly-willy, ticky-tacky, hob-nob, ping-pong, willy-nilly, super-dooper, fuddy-duddy, chit-chat, hoity-toity, criss-cross, slummy mummy, zig-zag.
ONOMATOPOEIC WORDS
Distribute the given onomatopoeic words into the following groups: a) imitations of sounds produced by people; b) imitations of sounds produced by animals; c) imitations of sounds produced by insects; d) imitations of sounds produced by inanimate objects.
To giggle, to oink, to rumble, to tick-tock, to hoo-woo, to blurt, to jingle, to mew, to plop, to croak, to fizz, to sneeze, to whistle, to ding-dong, to quack, to hiss, to buzz, to bark, to squeak, to whoosh, to splash, to rustle, to whoop, to clink, rat-tat / rat-a-tat / rat-a-tat-tat, to mumble, to whirr, to crackle, to moo, to sizzle, to whisper, to tinkle, to neigh, pitter-patter, to bubble, to grunt, to bang, to pit-a-pat, to shuffle, to snort, to woof, to rattle, to knock, ouch.
Find onomatopoeic words in the given extracts from poems and comment on the purpose of their usage.
A.
... the moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Sir Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Come Down, O Maid”
B.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
”Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.”
Allan Edgar Poe “The Raven”.
C.
Cafeteria
Boom!
Went the food
trays.
Clap! Clap!
Goes the teacher.
Rip!
Went the
plastic bag.
Munch! Munch!
Go the students.
Slurp!!!
Went the straws.
Whisper
Is what half the kids
in the room
are doing.
Crunch!
Crunch!
Go
the candy bars.
REVIEW
Study the morphemic composition of the given words. How does the suffix influence the meaning of the derivative?
druggist – drugster
escaper – escapee – escapist
swimmer – swimmist
physicist – physician
historical – historic
economical – economic
Explain the differences in the connotation of the derivational formants – suffixes and a combining form.
Diana-phile – Diana-holic
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blogophile – blogoholic – blogger
computernik – computerholic
Bushaphile – Bushaholic
technoid – technophile
jazzophile – jazznik
filmoholic – filmnik
cinenik – cinephile
Leninist – Leninite
laborist – laborite
Trotskyist – Trotskyite
Determine the derivational pattern the italicized words have been built on. Translate the sentences into Russian.
1. My mom and I labeled the boxes in my room. Sadly, there wasn’t much: just a few boxes of bed linens, some makeup, and a whole bunch of garment bags filled with un-’Runway’-esque clothes.
2. Since it appeared that I was the only one in the entire company who actually bought soup the higher-ups had slashed his menu to a solitary soup per day.
3. Everyone except me is making hundreds of thousands of pounds and inroads into very hub of establishment, while I career rudderless and boyfriendless through professional stagnation.
4. Three rings, four rings, five rings. I prayed for an answering machine, since I was’t in the mood for the mindless, friendly chit-chat of which he seemed so fond.
5. I started shaking again the moment I ran out of her office, wondering if my heart could just up and give out at the ripe old age of twenty-three.
6. Sometimes they threw promotional parties, but they were celebrity-free and therefore boring to New York’s hipster scene.
7. Weblogs or “blogs” are a form of online micropublishing, typically of personal thoughts and web links. The advent of freely available blog software has removed the technical hurdles to writing online. Many traditional media outlets see blogs as a form of unchecked and amateur journalism, but to the highly technical and incestuous “blogerati”, blogs are both a new genre of writing and a force for democratic good.
8. Obama’s son-of-an-immigrant story and tale of getting through education with the help of a scholarship resonate with Latinos.
9. But the new gentrification (or yuppification) is conditional on the existence of social agents, the ‘gentrifiers’ themselves, who have to choose to move into these areas.
10. He was very good-looking and fast became a popular idol – ’As Paris handsome and as Hector brave’, according to a contemporary poetaster.
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11. It might be paranoia, but I can’t seem to get away from these voices telling me to use the internet. They are everywhere on posters, when I switch on the radio, on TV and in the paper. It is getting too much for me to take in. I believe there is even a medical term for my problem: “dot com-fusion”.
12. Thanks to icons such as professional shopper Posh Spice and a culture of consumerism, today’s 12 to-16-year-old girls are rich and brand-aware enough to comprise a consumer group in their own right. There’s even a snappy name for these mini-adults in designer breeches: tweenagers.
13. Against the immigrant backdrop of home-made wine and Sicilian pastries we watch the Don’s son and heir, Michael, attend an Ivy League college and become the modern, respectable face of traditional mobsterdom.
14. “The tabloidification of American life – of the news, of the culture, of human behaviour – is such a sweeping phenomenon that it can’t be dismissed as merely a jokey footnote to the history of the 1990s,” David Kamp wrote in a long analysis in this month’s Vanity Fair.
15. It’s Cakegate: It had the ingredients of a perfectly ordinary burglary. But a recent break-in at the Banbury Cake Company may actually have been a sneaky blow in a ruthless battle for supremacy.
SEMANTIC CHANGE
Consider the historic development of the lexical meaning of the given words. Determine what component of the lexical meaning has changed and identify the result of the semantic change.
demon:an angel > an evil spirit.
evidence:significant appearance, token > facts, objects, or signs that make you believe that something exists or is true;
regret: lament over the dead > a feeling of sorrow or unhappiness, often mixed with disappointment;
to sell:to give > to deliver for money.
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