Colloquial (Conversational) Style.

The main function of colloquial style is practical activity of people. It is used in everyday life. Its extra-linguistic features are informality, spontaneous character of speech, interpersonal contact and direct involvement in the process of communication. It is characterized by the use of paralinguistic means of communication (gestures, expression of the face, movements). Basic stylistic features of the style are : familiarity, ellipsis, concrete character of speech, interruption and logical inconsistency of the speech, emotiveness, efficacy. Among secondary stylistic features there are : idiomatic and pattern character of speech, “personal” type of speech presentation. There are oral and written (epistolary) varieties of CS.

There are two forms of colloquial speech: dialogue (simple dialogue and polylogue) and monologue. The inner differentiation, of the CS i.e. genre and style distinctions, are caused by the communicative status, mood, aims, relations between the speakers, situation and theme of the conversation.

The basic substyles and genres of CS are : literary conversational style /talks, conversations, interviews /, familiar-conversational style /communication between family members, friends, intimate communication, children's talk /, low colloquial / quarrels, abuse, scandal, squabble, insult /.

The language peculiarities of CS are quite numerous: these are high activity of non-bookish means of the language (with stylistic conversational and familiarity colouring, the use of non-bookish low colloquial elements on all language levels, incomplete constructions (at phonetic, syntactical and partially morphological levels), the use of language units of concrete meaning at all the levels, non-characteristic use of means with abstract and generalized meaning, weak syntactic connections between the parts of a syntactic structure, active use of means of verbal imagery, means of expressing subjective appraisal, emotional and expressive means at all the levels, patterned speech, specific phraseology , personal forms, nonce-words.

Language means the colloquial style.

graphic means:graphic signs as the reflection of phonetic processes of sound modification in fluent speech, graphic signals of the change of communicative roles;

phonetic means: intensive modification of sounds in fluent speech, positional phonemic interchange(combinatorial - accommodation, assimilation, dissimilation and positional changes, connected with the position of a sound in a word - at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the word, stressed or unstressed position, etc.). Positional changes: reduction (weakening) of vowels in unstressed syllables) and partial devoicing of consonants at the end of the word before a pause. Complete reduction: apokopa (the drop of the final consonant or final part of the word), synkopa (the drop of a vowel or several sounds in other positions). Partial reduction as a qualitative change of vowels. Partial and complete devoicing of consonants at the end of a word. Stylistic and communicative effects of modification. Wealth and variety of intonation patterns (rhythm, tempo, timbre, melody peculiarities);

vocabulary: conversational (everyday life) vocabulary, priority of neutral widely-used words with concrete, denotative, referential meanings, wide use of non-literary vocabulary, expressive-emotional vocabulary, means of verbal imagery, well-developed synonymy and polysemy, the use of stylistic devices, including pun.

Date: 2016-03-03; view: 3911