Task Answer the following questions. Give the definition of stylistics

5. Can you name the sub styles of the official document style?

a) the language style of diplomatic documents;
b) the language style of business documents;
c) the language style of legal documents;
d) the language style of military documents.

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  6. What is individual style?
  

Individual style in stylistics is the way in which a person distinctively uses language. This may encompass different words, phrasings, and other aspects of language use. A person's individual style may be a selling point for a writer. Also, it can be used in forensics to identify people who write threats or other criminals.

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  7. What is norm in stylistics?
  

Norm – is an invariant, which should embrace all variable phonemic, morphological, lexical, and syntactic patterns with their typical properties circulating in the language at a definite period of time.

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  8. What can stylistics tell us about literature?
  

Stylistics is a branch of applied linguistics concerned with the study of style in texts, especially, but not exclusively, in literary works. Also called literary linguistics, stylistics focuses on the figures, tropes, and other rhetorical devices used to provide variety and a distinctness to someone's writing

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  9. Can you name the sub styles of the scientific prose style?
  

The style of scientific prose has 3 subdivisions:
1) the style of humanitarian sciences;
2) the style of "exact" sciences;
3) the style of popular scientific prose.

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  10. Can you name the sub styles of the newspaper style?
  

1) Headlines
2) Brief news items
3) Editorials
4) Advertisements and announcements.

Task 2. Match the given key vocabulary with an appropriate definitions.