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Literary (bookish) words are not stylistically homogeneous.
                            Besides general-literary (bookish) words, e.g. harmony, calamity,
                            alacrity,  etc.,  we  may  single  out  various  specific  subgroups,
                            namely:  1)  terms  or  scientific  words  such  as,  e  g.,  renaissance,
                            genocide, teletype, etc.;
                                  2)  poetic  words  and  archaisms  such  as,  e.g.,  whilome  —
                            ‘formerly’,  aught  —  ‘anything’,  ere  —  ‘before’,  albeit  —
                            ‘although’, fare — ‘walk’, etc., tarry — ‘remain’, nay — ‘no’;
                                  3) barbarisms and foreign words, such as, e.g., bon mot — ‘a
                            clever  or  witty  saying’,  apropos,  faux  pas,  bouquet,  etc.  The
                            colloquial words may be subdivided into:
                                A.  Common colloquial words.
                                B.  Slang, i.e. words which are often regarded as a violation of
                                   the norms of Standard English, e.g. governor for ‘father’,
                                   missus for ‘wife’, a gag for ‘a joke’, dotty for ‘insane’.
                                C.  Professionalisms, i.e. words used in narrow groups bound
                                   by the same occupation, such as, e.g., lab for ‘laboratory’,
                                   hypo for ‘hypodermic syringe’, a buster for ‘a bomb’, etc.
                                D.  Jargonisms,  i.e.  words  marked  by  their  use  within  a
                                   particular  social  group  and  bearing  a  secret  and  cryptic
                                   character,  e.g.  a  sucker  —  ‘a  person  who  is  easily
                                   deceived’, a squiffer — ‘a concertina’.
                                E.  Vulgarisms, i.e. coarse words that are not generally used in
                                   public, e.g. bloody, hell, damn, shut up, etc.
                                F.  Dialectical words, e.g. lass, kirk, etc.
                                G.  Colloquial coinages, e.g. newspaperdom, allrightnik, etc.

                                  3. Semes
                                  The  modern  approach  to  semantics  is  based  on  the
                            assumption  that  the  inner  form  of  the  word  (i.  e.  its  meaning)
                            presents a structure which is called the semantic structure of the
                            word.
                                  The term “seme” as a microcomponent of meaning was first
                            introduced by V. Skalichka. The seme reflects specific signs of the













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