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Questions for self-control:

1. 
   Define The belles-lettres style
   
2. 
   How many subdivisions are there in this functional style?
   
3. 
   Describe the character of the language of poetry.
   
4. 
   Describe the character of the language of the emotive prose
   
5. 
   Describe the character of the language of drama.
   

Lecture 4. Scientific Prose style.
Plan:

1. 
   The aim of the scientific prose style.
   
2. 
   The function of the styles.
   
3. 
   The characteristic features of the style.
   

Key words and expressions: style, scientific, notion, fact, hypothesis.

The aim of scientific prose is to prove a hypothesis, to create new concept, to disclose the laws of existence. The language tends to be objective, precise, unemotional, devoid of any individuality. The characteristic features of this style are:

1) the logical sequence of utterances with a varied system of connectives to indicate their interrelation and interdependence and the repeated use of such cliches - proceeding from, as it was said above, in connection with
and other lexico-syntactical forms emphasizing the logical
connection and independence of consecutive parts of discourse,
2) the use of terms specific to each given branch of science and denoting objects, phenomena and process,
3) precision, clarity and logical cohesion,
4) specific sentence patterns, they are of 3 types: postulatory, argumentative and formulative,
5) the use quotations and references. The references have a definite pattern: author, title of work quoted, the publishing house, the place and year it was published and the pages of the except quoted,
6) the frequent use of foot-notes not of the reference kind but digressive in character. Everything that seems not to be immediately relevant to the matter in hand but may indirectly back up the idea will be placed in a foot-note.
7) the impersonality is revealed in the frequent use of passive construction: Acid was taken.