Speech errors

Since ancient times, the beauty of presentation and the simplicity of thought were considered the highest virtue. It is hardly possible to find a person who does not think that knowing the word is very important. One can cite the words of an ancient sage, Aristotle, who said that if you want to know a person, you just need to talk to him.

Even at the end of the XIX century, linguists have already begun to talk about the fact that the level of the culture of speech is declining . For example, D.E. Rosenthal believes that the literary language is very strongly influenced by colloquial and even slang vocabulary. Unfortunately, the level of development of communication skills among modern youth has greatly decreased, accordingly, the level of speech ownership has significantly decreased.

Norms of the literary language undergo a large number of violations. They are allowed even by politicians and journalists. What violations are meant? These are jargon, common words, borrowed words.

Speech errors are violations of the use of words, or rather their forms, their meanings, grammatical constructions, as well as violations of the norms of the Russian literary language concerning orthoepy, grammar or vocabulary.

Speech deficiencies include those shortcomings in speech that are associated with poor selection of various expressive means of speech, we mean lexical repetitions or even the use of some superfluous words, as well as stamps, monotony, poverty of syntactic constructions, incorrect use of current verbal relations, and so on.

Speech errors are two groups: verbal and grammatical proper . Grammatical violate the structure of words, while verbal ones themselves violate the correctness of the use of linguistic units in one or another context. That is, they are not structural errors associated with the formation of words, but functional, related to use.

Speech errors can be divided into several categories:

• Lexical;
• Morphological;
• Syntactic;
• Stylistic;
• Communicative.

Let's talk about some speech errors that occur most often.

Often they arise because the speaking person simply does not understand and does not know the meaning of a word or even a few. It can be, for example, borrowed words. It is possible to give an example of a life situation when, without knowing, people called the travel agency "Phobos-S", when this word means "fear". Real estate agency - "Deimos", when the word it means "horror". People do not even think about the meanings of the words they use.

It should be said about such a mistake as the incorrect formation of noun forms, for example: "The firm does the analysis of the economy of enterprises", and after all the tests are done in a hospital and a polyclinic. The proposal should read: "The firm does an analysis of the economy of enterprises."

Unfortunately, the question concerning speech errors, which we hear in advertising, is quite relevant. Because of this, the incorrect pronunciation spreads with incredible speed, plunging the culture of the Russian language into darkness. Speech errors in advertising - a very common phenomenon, which, unfortunately, hard to eradicate, because really literate people in terms of linguistics is very small.