The Style of Official Documents

· business documents

· legal documents

· the language of diplomacy

· military documents

Prof. Galperin differs from other scholars in his views on functional styles as he includes in his classification only the written language. In his opinion style is the result of creative activity of the writer who consciously and deliberately selects language means that create style. Colloquial speech, according to him, by its nature will not lend itself to careful selection of linguistic features and there is no stylistic intention expressed on the part of the speaker. At the same time his classification contains such varieties of publicist style as oratory and speeches.

There is no unanimity about the belles-lettres style. In fact Galperin's position is not shared by the majority. This notion comes under criticism because it seems rather artificial especially in reference to modern prose.

At the same time many writers give an account of external events, social life and reproduce their characters' direct speech. Sometimes they quote extracts from legal documents, newspapers items, advertisements, slogans, headlines, etc. which do not belong to belles-lettres style in its traditional meaning. So most other classifications do not distinguish the language of fiction as a separate style.

Thus, the Number of functional styles and the problem of The Belles-Lettres Style are the most problematic issues.

Skrebnev’s classification of functional styles:

1. Literary or Bookish Style:

· publicist style

· scientific (technological) style

· official documents

2. Free (“Colloquial”) Style:

· literary colloquial style

· familiar colloquial style

As can be seen from this classification, both poetry and imaginative prose have not been included.

The system of styles by Prof. Arnold is represented in Colloquial Style :: Neutral Style :: Bookish Style.

Neutral style has no distinctive features and its function is to provide a standard background for other styles. The other 'real' styles can be broadly divided into two groups according to the scholar's approach: different varieties of colloquial styles and several types of literary bookish styles.

Colloquial Style

· literary colloquial

· familiar colloquial

· common colloquial

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