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Тема:
«The oppositional method of studying language.
Types
of opposition.
The marked and unmarked members of the
binary opposition.
Oppositional reduction (neutralization).»
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Использованная литература
Марк Яковлевич Блох
«ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКАЯ ГРАММАТИКА АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА»
Москва «Высшая школа» 1983
Борис Александрович Ильиш
«Строй современного английского языка»
ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЕ«ЛЕНИНГРАД
1971
Материалы из Википедии — свободной энциклопедии
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The grammatical category is a system of expressing
a generalised grammatical meaning by means of paradigmatic correlation
of grammatical forms.
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The ordered set of grammatical forms expressing a
categorical function constitutes a paradigm.
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The paradigmatic correlations of grammatical forms in a
category are exposed by the so-called "grammatical oppositions".
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The notion of opposition in grammar (nouns, verbs,
adjectives)
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Ferdinand de Sausser suggested that the system of
a language should be studied on the opposition of
its concrete forms (units).
Trubetskoy and Jacobson developed his idea.
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The opposition is a pair of grammatical forms,
opposed to each other both in meaning and in
form.
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Three main qualitative types of oppositions were established
in phonology:
"privative",
"gradual",
"equipollent"
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By the number of members contrasted, oppositions were
divided into binary (two members) and more than binary
(ternary, quaternary, etc.).
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The gradual opposition is formed by a contrastive
group of members which are distinguished not by the
presence or аbsenсе of a feature, but by the degree of it.
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An example of the gradual morphological opposition can
be seen in the category of comparison:
strong —
stronger — the strongest
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The equipollent opposition is formed by a contrastive
pair or group in which the members are distinguished
by different positive features
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An example of the equipollent opposition can be
seen in the correlation of the person forms of
the verb be:
am — are — is.
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Both equipollent and gradual oppositions in morphology, the
same as in phonology, can be reduced to privative
oppositions.
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The most important type of opposition is the
binary privative opposition; the other types of oppositions are
reducible to the binary privative opposition.
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The binary privative opposition is formed by a
contrastive pair of members in which one member is
characterised by the presence of a certain differential feature ("mark"), while the other member is characterised by the absence of this feature.
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The member in which the feature is present
is called the "marked", or "strong", or "positive" member,
and is commonly designated by the symbol + (plus); the member in which the feature is absent is called the "unmarked", or "weak", or "negative" member, and is commonly designated by the symbol — (minus).
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The meanings differentiated by the oppositions of signemic
units (signemic oppositions) are referred to as "semantic features",
or "semes".
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It should be noted the fact that
the meaning of the weak member of the privative
opposition is more general and abstract as compared with the meaning of the strong member, which is, respectively, more particular and concrete.
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Due to this difference in meaning, the weak
member is used in a wider range of contexts
than the strong member.
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In various contextual conditions, one member of an
opposition can be used in the position of the
other, countermember.
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This phenomenon should be treated under the
heading of "oppositional reduction" or "oppositional substitution".
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The first version of the term ("reduction") points
out the fact that the opposition in this case
is contracted, losing its formal distinctive force.
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The second version of the term ("substitution") shows
the very process by which the opposition is reduced,
namely, the use of one member instead of the other.
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Man conquers nature.
Человек покоряет природу.
The noun man in
the quoted sentence is used in the singular, but
it is quite clear that it stands not for an individual person, but for people in general, for the idea of "mankind".
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In other words, the noun is used generically,
it implies the class of denoted objects as a
whole. Thus, in the oppositional light, here the weak member of the categorical opposition of number has replaced the strong member.
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This kind of oppositional reduction should be considered
under the heading of "transposition".
Transposition is based on the
contrast between the members of the opposition.