Factors determining the character of style

Classification of Functional Language Styles

Literary Styles	Colloquial Style
Style of scientific prose	Style of official documents	Publicistic Style	Familiar-colloquial	Literary-colloquial
a) style of newspaper information	b) publicism proper

Factors determining the character of style

The character of the style is determined by the following criteria:

a) its function:

b) the vocabulary employed;

c) syntactic structures used;

d) the availability or absence of stylistic devices;

e) the form (written or oral).

In analyzing the function of a style we proceed from classification of language functions suggested by the German psychologist K. Bűhler. He distinguishes the following language functions:

1. Information

• the style of scientific prose;

• the style of official documents;

• the style of newspaper information;

2. Influence

• publicism proper;

• the belles-lettres style.

3. Communication

• familiar-colloquial style;

• literary-colloquial style.

Functional Styles of Modern English and Ukrainian

Style	Function	Types or genres	Vocabulary	Syntactic structure	Form	Usage of stylistic devices
scientific prose	information	papers, reports, materials of conferences; articles, monographs, textbooks, manuals	learned words, terms, special phraseology, abbreviations	well-developed, with multistaged subordination and coordination; infinitival, gerundial (English), participial complexes	oral and writing	traditional language tropes, devoid of stylistic colouring
official documents	information	legal, commercial, diplomatic, military, socio-political documents, business correspondence	learned words, terms, foreign words, archaisms, clichè	normalized, well-developed; traditional formulas	writing	traditional language tropes (in socio-political documents)
newspaper information	information	newspaper and magazine articles, TV and radio news	a wide choice of vocabulary, elements of non-normalized (newspapers and magazines)	much simpler as compared to the other literary styles	oral and writing	mostly traditional language tropes
publicism proper	influence	talks and reports on socio-political problems; essays, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine editorials and reviews	a wide choice of vocabulary with elements of non-normalized	simple or well-developed, depending upon the author’s idiosyncrasies	oral and writing	extensive usage of original tropes and other stylistic devices
belles-lettres	influence	poetry; emotive prose; drama	a wide choice of vocabulary both normalized and non-normalized	depends upon the author’s idiosyncrasies	writing	extensive usage of original tropes and other stylistic devices
colloquial	communication	varieties: farmiliar-colloquial (FCS) and literary colloquial (LCS); types: immediate communication; correspondence; diaries	an exceptionally wide choice; unlimited in case of FCS	very simple	oral and writing	extensive usage, first of all, of traditional language tropes. Depends much upon the speaker’s personality

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