Phonetic features

-casual and often careless pronunciation, use of deviant forms, e.g. gonna instead of going to, dunno instead of don't know.

-use of reduced and contracted forms, e.g. you're, they've, I'd.

omission of unaccented elements due to quick tempo, e.g. you hear me?

-emphasis of intonationas a powerful semantic and stylistic instrument capable to render subtle nuances of thought and feeling.

-use of onomatopoeic words, e.g. whoosh, hush, yum, yak.

Morphological features

-use of evaluative suffixes, nonce words formed on morphological and phonetic analogy with other nominal words: e.g. baldish, mawkish, moody, hanky- panky, helter- skelter.

-extensive use of collocations and phrasal verbs instead of neutral and literary equivalents: e.g. to turn in instead of to go to bed.

Syntactical features

-use of simple short sentences.

-dialogues are usually of the question- answer type.

-use of echo questions, parallelstructures,repetitions of various kinds.

-in complex sentences asyndetic coordination is the norm.

-coordination is used more often than subordination, repeated use of conjunction andis a sign of spontaneity rather than an expressive device.

-extensive use of ellipsis, including the subject of the sentence e.g. Can't say anything.

-extensive use of syntactic tautology, e.g. That girl, she was something else!

-abundance of gap-fillers and parenthetical elements such as sure, indeed, to be more exact, okay, well.

Lexical features

Combination of neutral, familiar and low colloquial vocabulary, including slang, vulgar and taboo words.

-extensive use of words of general meaning, specified in meaning by the situation guy, job, get, do, fix, affair.

-limited vocabulary resources, use of the same word in different meanings it may not possess, e.g. ''some'' meaning good: some guy! some game! ''nice'' meaning impressive, fascinating, high quality: nice music.

Abundance of specific colloquial interjections: boy, wow, hey, there, ahoy.

Use of hyperbole, epithets, evaluative vocabulary, trite metaphors and simile, e.g. if you say it once more I' ll kill you, as old as the hills, horrid, awesome, etc.

-tautological substitution of personal pronouns and names by other nouns, e.g. you-baby, Johnny- boy.

Mixture of curse words and euphemisms, e.g. damn, dash, darned, shoot.

Compositional features

-use of deviant language on all levels.

-strong emotional colouring.

-loose syntactical organisation of an utterance.

-frequently little coherence or adherence to the topic.

-no special compositional patterns.

III Publicist (media) style

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