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.

8. Slang
general slang
interjargon
special slang
social,professional
WOW!
WOW!
OH!
OH!
!
?
TD
TD
AWOL
AWOL

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 – don’t
dinna – don’t

12. Conversational words of all kinds are
widely used for stylistic purposes:
-
everyday speech
newspaper language
poetry
fiction