Stylistic classification of the English vocabulary.
The biggest layer of the English word-stock is made up of neutral words, possessing no stylistic connotation and suitable for any communicative situations. This group doesn’t have a special stylistic coloring.
Literary words serve to satisfy communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages (common literary, terms, poetic words, archaic words, barbarisms and foreign words, nonce-words).
Colloquial words are employed in non-official everyday communication (common colloquial words, slang, jargonisms, professional words, vulgar words, colloquial coinages).
Special literary vocabulary:
1) terms – words, denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science and technique (indicate the technical peculiarities, create a special atmosphere);
2) poetic and highly literary words – mostly archaic or very rare, used to produce an elevated effect;
3) archaic words:
- obsolescent words – the word becomes rarely used;
- obsolete words – have already gone completely;
- archaic words – are no longer recognizable in modern English;
4) barbarisms – belong to EV, aren’t made conspicuous in the text, have synonyms; foreignisms – don’t belong to EV, have no synonyms (express some exact meaning);
5) literary coinages:
- neologisms – new word or a new meaning for an established word
- nonce-words – words, coined to suite particular situation.
Special colloquial vocabulary:
1) slang – words or expressions that are very informal and are not considerate suitable for more formal situation (highly emotive and expressive);
2) jargonisms – group of words whose aim is to preserve secrecy on or another social group;
3) professionalisms – words used in a profession or calling by people connected by common interests;
4) dialectal words – words, which use is generally confined to a definite locality;
5) vulgarisms – obscene words, the use of which is banned in any form as being indecent;
6) colloquial coinages – spontaneous and elusive words, which can be unfixed in dictionaries.
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