Style Function Genres Features

Scientific style Exchanging -exact sciences; • objective,

information -humanitarian precise, and
between people sciences; mostly
-popular science unemotional
prose; language means;
words used in
primary logical
meaning
• use of terms and
learned words
• impersonality
and generalized
form of
expression
reflected in the
choice of
grammar and
syntactic
constructions
• logical
sequence of
utterances
• most developed
system of
connectives
Publicist style direct contact -oratory; -essays; • direct contact
with the -articles in with the audience
audience. newspapers and • the use of the
magazines 1st person
singular to justify
a personal
approach to the
problem treated
• combination of
logical
argumentation
and emotional
appeal due to
logical
argumentation
 • careful
paragraphing
• use of
 emotionally
coloured words
Newspaper style gripping readers' -brief news items; •Special political
attention, -advertisements and economic
and terms
providing announcements; •Non-term
information -headlines political
and -the editorial vocabulary
evaluating the •Newspaper
contents of the cliches
article. •Stereotyped
expressions,
•Commonplace
phrases familiar
to the reader
Belles-lettres Cognitive- -poetry; -emotive   • rhythm and
style aesthetic function prose; -drama; rhyme phonetic
means
• fresh,
unexpected
imagery
• wide use of
syntactic means
• a great number
of emotionally
coloured words
• combination of
the spoken and
written varieties
of language • two
forms of
communication
• combination of
the spoken and
written varieties
of language • two
forms of
communication
The official controlling and -diplomatic  • use of words in
documents establishing documents; logical dictionary
functional style business -business letters; meaning special
relations. -military system of cliches,
documents; terms, set
expressions
 -legal documents. • use of
terminological
nomenclature
• no emotive
words retaining
their original
meaning
 • non-flexible
compositional
design • fixed
paragraphing
Yushkov Igor LA-93