e.g ,,What do you feel now?" ,,Hatred," she said, her voice trembling with pleasure. 6 Inherent connotations may become different in the context, that is positive words may become negative and vice versa. e.g ,,What attracts me to him is his unique dishonesty. Honest people are so boring." Oscar Wilde Expressive features of separate parts of speech 1 Nouns are based on the unusual use of the number, case, and pronoun substitions. In other words, on a transfer of nouns from one lexico-semantic group to another. This is found in personification. Observing parts in which objects, animals are endowed (given) with human feelings, actions, the ability to think or speech. In this case, the noun that is personified, changes its usual connections with other words. e.g The wind laughed his evil laugh and ran away. Another case of transfer is zoonymic metaphors, that is names of animals, fantastic beings when applied to people become emotional and often offensive. e
Short commonplace words have the most meanings (and also the most collocations with them) – set, make, take etc 37. Homonyms Each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation, but different origin and meaning. Accidental similarity. o Band – ribbon/group of musicians Grammatical homonyms o Past tense and past participle, present participle, gerund, verbal noun Lexico-grammatical homonyms o Coincide of words representing different word classes. Love – noun/verb o Same word class, but different use Found – past tense and participle of find, to found Full homonyms – all forms coincide Partial homonyms – some forms coincide 38. Homophones One or more words that are identical in sound but have a different spelling and meaning. o beer/bier, there/their/they're