This powerpoint presentation delas with Lexical Stylistic devices as delat with by Galperin in his book stylistics.

1. Stylistic Devices and
Expressive Means

2. DIFFERENT OF WORD AND
MEANING
• There are:
• Content words: refer to the word and our
linguistics relationship with it. They serve to
name things express relations, perceptions,
states, and actions
• Functional words: work within language and
how they operate in relationship with other
words to order the utterance in speech or
discourse.

3. There are groups:
1. Interaction of word meanings
2. Intensification of a feature or
phenomenon
3. Special use of set expressions

4. of meaning
 Primary: main meaning in dictionaries
 Derivatives: secondary or acquired
meanings in dictionaries.
 Contextual: a meaning a word is given or
acquires when used. It depends on the
communicative situation and/or the variety
of language where it is used.

5. ( )
 Primary: main meaning in dictionaries
 Derivatives: secondary or acquired
meanings in dictionaries.
 Contextual: a meaning a word is given or
acquires when used. It depends on the
communicative situation and/or the variety
of language where it is used.

6. Types of
• Context of : the social, economical or
cultural conventions or history or the discourse or
text
• Context of : situation within which
discourse is conducted, for example, physical
surrounding or space or setting; the people
participating, the channel or means used, aural,
visual, electronic, written; the time,
• Context of : the topic (fields of
domain) or subject or theme.

7. of meanings
There are depending on the
interactions of:
and meanings
and meanings
and meanings
and meanings

8. Primary and Contextual
To this group belong:
: identification between two
entities that have or seem to have nothing
in common.
( ): substitution or
reference o own thing by mentioning
another associated or partially related to it
logically.

9. : when you call something one way but
mean the opposite. It´s like been a little
hypocritical. It is used to make fun or degrade
someone or something.

10. and
: when a word determines or operatives
grammatically onto two other words phrases; one
of them has a literal meaning and the other has a
figurative or metaphorical one. Ex: at gun point
they made Johnny pick up the piece of chicken from
the muddy ground. Then, at the order of the
gunner, he ate the dirty chicken wing and his heart
out/ he swallowed the dirty chicken wings and his
pride. (swallow the chicken wing-literal meaning/
swallow one’s pride-figurative meaning)

11. : we activate or play with two meaning of
a word or words simultaneously. We based
this on emphasizing the different meanings of
a word (polysemy) or on the same spelling and
pronunciation of two words or the same
sound of two different words (homonymy)

12. and
: words that express our emotional
reactions towards something. They can be
primary ( sounds/words with no logical meaning)
or derivative (words that mean something, but
are used to expressed our emotions. The
emotional charge or meaning is predominant.
: attributive word (mainly adjectives) that
are used to determine or describe something that
by nature or logic belong to other category

13. Logical and emotive
: two words of opposing meaning
combine grammatically

14. and
: using a proper noun as
common or vice versa.

15. of a Feature
: comparing two things that belong to
different nature or domain.
: an exaggeration made deliberately
: using more words than needed to
express something. Don’t confuse with
paraphrasing or using different words to express
the same ideas.
: using more word than needed to
deliberately avoid using an offensive, vulgar, word
or expression.

16. (idiomatic expressions or sayings etc.)
• Among these we have:
or : expressions or brief statement
summarizing a common or generalizing didactic
experience. It is used in contexts where a situation is
similar to other and the meanings, causes or
consequences of the saying can be transferred and is
applicable to the context where it is used (context of
reference or utterance).
: ingenious witty statements created by a
known person or author that, as proverbs, express a
knowledge or experience applicable to similar
situations. They make reference to a teaching or
didactic

17. : is based on the repetition of
another person's written or speech words, in
order to illustrate, sustain or prove what you
say. It relies on the expertise or knowledgeable
reputation of the persons quoted or cited. It is
usually brief as epigrams or proverbs, but
different from them in that a quotation can
make use of charts or other kinds of
reproduceable materials.

18. : when a reference is made to a
historical, person, fact, place or situation.

19. happens
when we revive or emphasize the meanings of
individual words that are part of an idiomatic
expression, proverbs or saying. The expression
has both its meaning as a set or expression and
as individual words.