Low-flown vocabulary in Modern English
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This document discusses the use of low-flown vocabulary, including colloquial words, in modern literary and media discourse. It identifies three subgroups of colloquial words: those that change form or meaning, those that change both form and meaning, and those that result from a change in meaning. Examples are given of clipping, contamination, and changes in grammatical form that fall into the first subgroup. The second subgroup involves changes in grammatical form or word patterns like affixation, compounding, conversion, and shortening that alter meaning. Slang, jargon, vulgarisms, dialectal words, and conversational words are also discussed as being widely used for stylistic purposes across genres.
Low-flown vocabulary in Modern English
- 1. Low-flown vocabulary in modern literary and media discourse
- 2. COLLOQUIAL WORDS - literary colloquial - familiar colloquial - low colloquial
- 3. 3 subgroups a) change of their phonetic or morphological form; b) change of both their form and lexicostylistic meaning; c) words which resulted from the change of their lexical and/or lexico-stylistic meaning.
- 4. The 1st Subgroup: a) clipping (shortening): caff caffeteria; b) contamination of a word combination: kinna kind of; c) contamination of grammatical forms: I'd go, there's.
- 5. The 2nd Subgroup a) the change of the grammatical form which brings the change of the lexicostylistic meaning: a handful a person causing a lot of trouble
- 6. b) The chqnge of word-building pattern - affixation: oldie, tenner; - compounding: backroom boy, clip-joint; - conversion: to bag, teach-in; - telescopy: flush, fruice; - shortening and affixation: Archie; -compounding and affixation: strap-hanger.
- 9. Examples of Internet Jargon BTW - By the way CYA - See you around FAQ - Frequently asked questions LOL - Laugh out loud TTYL - Talk to you later
- 10. Vulgarisms are the words which are not generally used in public. However, they can be found in modern literature nowadays
- 11. Dialectal words are used to intensify the emotive and expressive colouring of speech ud would, im him, ud would, im him, aseen have seen, aseen have seen, canna cannot, canna cannot, dinna dont dinna dont
- 12. Conversational words of all kinds are widely used for stylistic purposes: - everyday speech newspaper language poetry fiction