Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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3. The Publicistic Style, its Substyles, and their Peculiarities
The Publicistic Style treats certain political, social, economic, cultural problems. 
The aim of this style is to form public opinion, to convince the reader or the listener. 
Publicistic style of a language may be divided into the following substyles: oratorical 
style, the essay, articles. 
a) Oratorical style 
The oratorical style is the oral subdivision of the publicistic style. Persuasion is 
the most obvious purpose of oratory. 
Direct contact with listeners permits the combination of the syntactical, lexical 
and phonetic peculiarities of both the written and spoken varieties of language. 
Oratorical style belongs to the written variety of language, though it is modified 
by the oral form of the utterance and the use of gestures. Certain typical features of 
the spoken variety of speech are: direct address to the audience (ladies and gentlemen, 
honorable members, the use of second person pronoun ”you”, etc.) sometimes 
contractions (I’ll, won’t, haven’t, isn’t, and others) and the use of colloquial 
words[53].
This style is employed in speeches on political and social problems of the day, in 
oration and addresses on solemn occasions as public weddings, funerals and jubilees, 
in sermons and debates and also in the speeches of counsel and judges in courts of 
law. 
Repetition can be regarded as the most typical stylistic devices of English 
oratorical style. The speaker resorts to repetition to persuade the audience, to add 
weight to his opinion. Almost any piece of oratory will have parallel construction, 
antithesis, suspense, climax, rhetorical questions. Almost all typical syntactical 
stylistic devices can be found in English oratory. Questions are most frequent because 
they promote closer contact with the audience. 

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Special obligatory forms open the oration: 
My Lord; Mr. President; Mr. 
Chairman; Your Worship; Ladies and gentlemen,
etc. 
At the end of his speech the speaker usually thanks the audience for their 
attention by saying: 
Thank you or Thank you very much.