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CHARACTERISTIC
OF FUNCTIONAL
STYLES
In the English literary standard the following major FS are distinguished:
1.the belles-lettres functional style 2.the publicistic functional style 3.the newspaper functional style
4) language of military
documents.
PUBLICISTIC STYLE
The publicistic style became a separate
style in the middle of the 18th century.
The Written form:
publicistic • the style of newspaper and
style includes: magazine articles
• essays
Oral form:
• oratorical speech
• the style of radio and
TV commentaries
AIM OF THE PUBLICISTIC STYLE
The general aims of the publicistic style are:
Vocabulary: