low-flown vocabulary in modern english
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Low-flown vocabulary in modern literary and
media discourse
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- literary colloquial- familiar colloquial - low colloquial
COLLOQUIAL WORDS
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a) change of their phonetic or morphological form; b) change of both their form and lexico-stylistic meaning; c) words which resulted from the change of their lexical and/or lexico-stylistic meaning.
3 subgroups
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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.
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The 2nd Subgroupa) the change of the grammatical form which brings the change of the lexico-stylistic meaning: a handful – a person causing a lot of trouble
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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.
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general slang special slang interjargon social,professional
SlangSlang
WOW!WOW!
OH!OH! TDTD AWOLAWOL
!! ??
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Examples of Internet Jargon
BTW - By the wayCYA - See you aroundFAQ - Frequently asked questionsLOL - Laugh out loudTTYL - Talk to you later
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Vulgarisms
are the words which are not generally used in public. However, they can be found in
modern literature nowadays
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Dialectal words are used to intensify the emotive and
expressive colouring of speech
‘ud – would, ‘im – him, ‘aseen – have seen,
canna – cannot, dinna – don’t
‘ud – would, ‘im – him, ‘aseen – have seen,
canna – cannot, dinna – don’t
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Conversational words of all kinds are widely used for stylistic purposes:
- everyday speech - newspaper language - poetry - fiction