Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

 
Questions for discussion: 
1. What is the functional style of the language? 
2. What is the degree of stability of each style? 
3. How does the development of each style take place 
4. What are the major types of functional style? 
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2. The Belles - Lettres Style, its Substyles and its Peculiarities 
 
The belles – letters style is a generic term for three substyles: 
1.
The language of poetry; 
2.
Emotive prose, or the language of fiction; 
3.
The language of the drama. 
Each of these substyles has certain common features, typical of the general 
belles – letters style. Each of them also enjoy some individuality. 
The purpose of the belles – letters style, unlike scientific, is not to prove but
only to suggest a possible interpretation of the phenomena of life forcing the reader to 
see viewpoint of the writer.
The belles – letters style has certain linguistic features which are; 
a)
Genuine, not trite, imagery, achieved by linguistic device. 
b)
The use of words in contextual and very often in more than one dictionary 
meanings. 
c)
A vocabulary which will reflect to a greater or lesser degree the authors 
personal evaluation of things or phenomena. 
d)
A peculiar individual selection of vocabulary and syntax. 
e)
The introduction of the typical features of a colloquial language to a full 
degree(in plays) or a slight degree(in poems). 
a)
 
Language of poetry 
The first substyle is verse. Both the syntactical and semantical aspects of the 
poetic substyle may be defined as compact. The most important feature of the poetic 
substyle is imagery, which gives rich additional information. This information is 
created by specific use of words and images. Images are mostly built on metaphors, 
metonymies, similes and epithets etc. So the language of poetic style is rich in 
stylistic devices: repetition, grammar constructions, phonetic stylistic devices, 
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Rhythm and rhyme are immediately distinguishable property of the poetic 
substyle. The various compositional forms of rhythm and rhyme are generally studied 
under the terms versification or prosody. 
English verse, like all verse, emanated from song.