Section 2

VOCABULARY FOCUS

ª 2.1. Stratification of the Scientific Text Vocabulary

1. Pick out words and word-combinations which can be regarded as special linguistic terminology and group them thematically.

2. Define the following terms: dialect, a regional dialect, a social dialect, an intrinsic quality of a language, a distinctive feature.

3. Find the derivational series of words with the root morpheme dialect.

4. Pick out all word-combinations in which the word ‘dialect’ occurs.

5. Select words which can be regarded as general scientific terms and complete the following table taking into consideration their part-of-speech belonging. Some sections may remain blank.

6. Which terminological units of the text can be regarded as consubstantial terms and why? Say which of them function as general scientific terms and which function as special linguistic terms.

7. Select general scientific units in the text and sort them out according to their structure into a) individual lexemes; b) word-combinations; c) predicative polylexemic units. After that complete the table below with the general scientific units taking into account their function in the logical unfolding of the text information.

8. Think of Ukrainian equivalents to the general scientific units from the text. Mind that they should be fully in keeping with the stylistic requirements of the Ukrainian scientific prose.

9. Pick out general scientific verbal word-combinations with the head-words find, see, recognize, appear. What general scientific meaning do they acquire in the humanities text under consideration?

10. Which words of Latin, Greek or French origin can be traced in the text and which stylistic layer do they represent?

11. Find those units of the text which serve as means of quantitative expressivity, among them adjectives in the Comparative and Superlative degrees and emphatic and limiting particles.

12. Comment on the expressive nature of the words to lack, to lump, host used in the ST in question in the word-combinations to lack the power, to lump together, a host of dialects. How does their trite imagery contribute to the expressiveness of the text? What other instances of its manifestation are there in the text?

13. Is the present text illustrative in terms of subjective modal evaluation as another form expressivity can take in a ST? If so, provide examples.

14. Find those emotive adjectives which describe different kinds of speech in the text under study and comment on their contribution to the expressivity of this piece of scientific writing. Look for more words with inherent expressive-evaluative connotations in the present text.

2.2. Vocabulary Practice