STYLISTIC LEXICOLOGY
- Author: SOYOQULOV KHAMDAM
- Language: ingliz tilida
- Writing: ingliz yozuvida
- Publisher: Toshkent
- Year: 2021
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Stylistic classification of the English language vocabulary.
It is important to classify the English vocabulary from a stylistic point of view because some SDs
are based on the interplay of different lexical components and aspects of a word.
The word stock of any language may be presented as a system elements of which are
interconnected, interrelated and yet interdependent. Lexicology suggests many ways of classifying
any vocabulary but for the purpose of stylistic analysis we may represent the whole word stock of
English language as the domain divided into two major layers: the literary layer, the neutral layer
and the colloquial layer.
The literary and the colloquial layer contain a number of subgroups, all of which have a certain
property, characteristic of the layer on the whole, that is called an aspect. Thus we say ‘the aspect of
the literary layer is its markedly bookish character, the aspect of the colloquial layer is its lively
spoken character. Both peculiarities make the first layer more or less stable and the latter –
unstable, fleeting. The aspect of the neutral layer is its universal character which means that it is
unrestricted in use.
The literary vocabulary consists of the following groups of words:
Terms
Poetical words
Archaic words
Foreignisms and barbarisms