Low-flown vocabulary in modern literary and

media discourse

- literary colloquial- familiar colloquial - low colloquial

COLLOQUIAL WORDS

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

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.

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

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.

general slang special slang interjargon social,professional

SlangSlang

WOW!WOW!

OH!OH! TDTD AWOLAWOL

!! ??

Examples of Internet Jargon

BTW - By the wayCYA - See you aroundFAQ - Frequently asked questionsLOL - Laugh out loudTTYL - Talk to you later

Vulgarisms

are the words which are not generally used in public. However, they can be found in

modern literature nowadays

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

Conversational words of all kinds are widely used for stylistic purposes:

- everyday speech - newspaper language - poetry - fiction