Lecture 5 Functional Styles of the English Language Plan

Characteristic features of the style: 
1 
The aim 
The Belles-lettres style has its own specific function 
which is double–phoned. Besides, informing the reader, it 

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impresses the reader aesthetically. Its function is aesthetic 
and cognitive, cognitive on the one hand and receiving 
pleasure on the other. 
2 
Peculiar 
features 
Highly elevated style with emotive words and stylistic 
devices, subjective evaluation of predominant, imagery is 
used to express the thought, educative, intertaining. 
3 
Grammatical 
and 
morphological 
features 
Morphological stylistic devices serve to show the 
peculiarities of the belles-lettres style. 
4 
Syntactical 
features
Syntactic stylistic devices are used to form syntactical 
features of the style. 
5 
Vocabulary 
Lexical, phonetic, lexico-syntactical stylistic devices 
serve to form vocabulary. 
6 
Sub-styles 
Poetry 
Emotive prose
Drama
Key words:
Official Style, Scientific Prose Style, Publicist Style, Newspaper Style, Belles-
lettres Style. 
Questions: 
1.
What does functional stylistics study? 
2.
Speak on different types of styles. 
3.
What kind of works belong to belles-lettres style?
4.
What is publicist style?
5.
What is the difference between scientific and newspaper style?
6.
What is the main feature of Official Style?