Stilistika materjalid
contemptuous) (miss what's-her-name)
· This type of word building is popular for coining nonce words (adjectives, nouns)
(a move-away-or-I'll-kick-you attitude)
In general, nonce words are very expressive, strikingly new, unexpected.
· This is true for words with uncommon structure and those built according to
conventional patterns (to eyebrow)
· Words based on repetition and rhyme (hoity-toity, riff-raff)
· Rhymy slang (wife-joy of life)
· Distorted words are humorous. Proper understanding is based on fixed context (I
beg your pudding)
· Unusual shortenings are also humorous (bacon and e [eggs])
· Phrasal verbs being colloquial become even more expressive and colloquial when
they appear as nouns (a walk-up--house with no elevator)
6. Phonetic expressive means
Every work of literature is a certain sequence of sounds. Phonostylistics studies phonetic