Functional Styles: Controversial issues.

The notion of style has to do with how we use the language under specific circumstances for a specific purpose. Linguistic literature gives various definitions of the notion 'style':

Style – socially recognized and functionally conditioned, internally united totality of the ways of using, selecting and combining the means of lingual intercourse in some national language (V.V. Vinogradov).

Style – a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication (I. R. Galperin).

Style – specific features of text type (what differentiates a group of homogeneous texts) or of a specific text (an individual text) (Skrebnev).

Functional styles are subsystems of the language and represent varieties of the norm of the national language. Their evolution and development has been determined by the specific factors of communication in various spheres of human activity. Each of them is characterised by its own parameters in vocabulary usage, syntactical expression, phraseology, etc.

The term 'functional style' reflects peculiar functions of the language in this or that type of communicative interaction.

I.R.Galperin distinguishes 5 functional styles:

1. The Belles-Lettres Style:

· poetry

· emotive prose

· the language of the drama

2. Publicist Style:

· oratory and speeches

· the essay

· articles

Newspaper Style

· brief news items

· headlines

· advertisements and announcements

· the editorial

Scientific Style

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