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The functional style classification on the basis of three differential features· Emotionality/ non-emotionality -> belle-letters and Publicistic styles/ official, scientific styles · Spontaneity/ non-spontaneity -> styles of oral/ written types of speech · Norm adherence/ lack of norm adherence -> literary colloquial/ conversational · and combinations of the enumerated features
44. Inductive classification of functional style. The criteria for classification according to the inductive approach are not given but they are extracted from a certain speech material. The procedure is the following: the researcher having a certain number of utterances and texts classifies them into groups on the basis of lexical, syntactical and other parameters of resemblance. Thus, each group of texts will represent a certain functional style. · Irrespective of the approaches adopted, scholars usually distinguish the following styles: conversational, official or documentary, scientific, publicistic and oratorical, newspaper style, and belles-lettres style. · The status of belles-lettres style, newspaper style and conversational style is still controversial. Belles-lettres style– following the differentiation of the primary and secondary semiotic systems it is possible to assume that the poetic language and the language of fiction does not constitute a functional style comparable with other functional styles but it constitutes a specific type of language. The status of newspaper styleis also doubtful. Some scholars consider that the existence of this style is conditioned by the specific aims of mass media and by the peculiarities of the linguistic means used in newspaper. But these peculiarities manifest themselves only in limited newspaper units – headlines, brief news (briefings) and editorials. Thus, it is more reasonable to speak about the newspaper language rather than about the newspaper style. Prof. Galperin I. R. excluded conversational stylefrom the inventory of FSs, because his classification was based on entirely the written type of language. Though conversational style in Modern English is used even more widely than written language and is not homogeneous at all. Generally, the following functional styles can be distinguished: official style, scientific style, publicistic style, literary conversational style, colloquial style. · Functional styles are represented by different types of utterances and texts. These are different classes of texts within a FS which differ in their semantic and topical characteristics. Thus the texts of publicistic style may be subdivided into texts on politics, economics, moral, art, religion, health, etc. · Each type of the texts is realized in a certain genre of the text. These are types of the text subdivided according to their compositional and stylistic peculiarities. The military texts for instance are divided into orders, reports, instructions and regulations. · Each of the enumerated styles is exercised in two forms — written and oral: an article and a lecture are examples of the two forms of the scientific style, an essay and a public speech — of the publicistic style, etc.
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