STYLISTIC LAYERS OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

Colloquialisms are informal words which are used in everyday conversational speech

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

Slang – language of a highly colloquial style, considered as below the level of educated speech, and consisting of current words whose meanings have been metaphorically shifted

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

Dialect – a regional form of the language

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

Obsolete words – those which have completely gone out of use at least for a century
Archaisms – words which are partly or fully out of circulation
Historisms – words denoting objects and phenomena which no longer exist

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

Terminology – the sum total of terms for a specific branch of science, technology, etc., forming a special layer in the word-stock of the language.
Term – a word or a word-combination which is created or borrowed to express the definite concepts specific for a particular science.

Basic peculiarities of terms
Definability
Lack of emotional connotations
Monosemy

STYLISTIC STRATIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY