STYLISTICS, SOMETIMES CALLED LINGUO-STYLISTICS, IS A BRANCH OF GENERAL
LINGUISTICS.
It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks:
a) the investigation of the
inventory of special language
media which by their ontological
features secure
the desirable
effect of the
utteranceinterdependent tasks:
b) certain types of texts
(discourse) which due to the
choice
and arrangement of
language means are distinguished
by the pragmatic aspect of the
communication.
EXPRESSIVE MEANS
Phonetic
Lexical
Syntactical
GENERAL NOTES ON FUNCTIONAL STYLES OF LANGUAGE
The belles-lettres style
the
language style of
poetry;
the language style of
emotive
prose;
the language style of
drama.
The publicistic style
the language style of
oratory;
the language style of
essays;
the language style of
feature articles in
newspapers and
journals.
The newspaper style
the language style of
brief news items and
communiques;
the language style of
newspaper headings
the language style of
notices and
advertisements
The scientific prose style
the language style of
humanitarian sciences;
The official document style
the language style of
diplomatic documents;
