Lecture General Notes on Styles and Stylistics § Styles and Stylistics. § Stylistics and its Subdivisions

§ 2. The Belles - Lettres Style, its Substyles and its Peculiarities
The term "Belles - lettres" is generic for 3 substyles:
- poetry;
- emotive prose;
- drama;
The Belles-lettres style has its own specific function which is double -phoned. Besides, iriformingthe reader, itirnpresses the reader aesthetically.
Its function is aesthetico - cognitive, cognitive on the one hand and receiving pleasure on the other
The means of this functional style are:
- genuine imaginative means and SDs;
- the use of words in its contextual meaning;
- the individual choice of vocabulary which reflects the author's personal evaluation;
- a peculiar individual selection of syntax;
- the introduction of elements of other styles;
Poetry. Peculiarities - rhythm and rhyme. As a SD rhythm is a combination of the ideal metrical scheme and its variations governed by the standard.
Emotive prose. Emotive prose is a combination of literary variant of the language and colloquial, which is presented by the speech of the characters which is stylized that means it has been made "literature like" and some elements of conversational English were made use of. Emotive prose allows the use of elements of other styles but the author changes them and fulfils a certain function. SDs used: in emotive prose style are represented speech, detached constructions, gap - sentence link.
Drama - the language of plays mainly consists of dialogues. The author's speech is in the form of stage remarks. Any presentation of a play is an aesthetic procedure. The language of a play has the following peculiarities:
- it is stylized (retains the modus of literary English);
- it presents the variety of spoken language;
- it has redundancy of information caused by necessity to amplify the utterance;
- monologue is never interrupted;
- character's utterances are much longer than in ordinary conversation;