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This manual offers one of the rather widely accepted classifications which singles out the following functional styles: Their classifications, though, coincide only partially: most style theoreticians do not argue about the number of functional styles being five, but disagree about their nomen-clature. Means intended to fulfil a specific function of communication and aiming at a definite effect."*Īll scholars agree that a well developed language, such as English or Russian, is streamed into several functional styles. Galperin as "a system of coordinated, interrelated and interconditioned language Vinogradov more than three decades ago, we shall follow the understanding of a functional style formulated by I. Proceeding from the famous definition of the style of a language offered by V. These paradigms are known as functional styles of the language. Thus, functional stylistics, which became and remains an international, very important trend in style study, deals with sets, "paradigms" of language units of all levels or lan-guage hierarchy serving to accommodate the needs of certain typified communicative situations.
Havranek and others focused their attention on the priority of the situational appropriateness in the choice of language varieties for their adequate func-tioning. Representatives of the not less well-known Prague school-V. It is no surprise, then, that many linguists follow their famous French colleague Charles Bally, claiming that stylistics is primarily the study of synonymic language resources. So, "May I offer you a chair?", "Take a seat, please", "Sit down"-have the same proposition (subject-matter) but differ in the manner of expression, which, in its turn, depends upon the situational conditions of the communication act.ħ0 per cent of our lifetime is spent in various forms of communication activities-oral (speaking, listening) or writen (reading, writing), so it is self-evident how important it is for a philologist to know the mechanics of relations between the non-verbal, extralinguistic denotational essence of the communicative act and its verbal, linguistic presentation.
It is no news that any propositional content-any "idea"-can be verbalized in several different ways. In the course of time it developed sev-eral meanings, each one applied to a specific study of language elements and their use in speech. The term "stylistics" originated from the Greek "stylos" which means "a pen". Functional Stylistics and Functional Styles.įorms and Types of the Language. List of Authors Whose Texts Were Used in Exercises 140 Extracts for Comprehensive Stylistic Analysis.đ24 Stylistic Differentiation of the Vocabulary 25 The Role of the Context in the Actualization of Meaning.Ē2