Bookish Style

· scientific

· official documents

· publicist (newspaper)

· oratorical

· poetic

Function Style	Commu- nicative	Prag- matic	emotive	phatic	aesthetic
oratorical	+	+	+	+	+
colloquial	+	+	+	+	-
poetic	+	-	+	-	+
Publicist	+	+	+	-	-
official	+	+	-	-	-
scientific	+	-	-	-	-

4. The modern approach to functional styles

A) A.N.Morokhovsky

1. Official business style

2. Scientific-professional style

3. Publicist style

4. Literary colloquial style

5. Familiar colloquial style

business style (administrative, juridical, military, commercial, diplomatic, etc.) Military texts (official style) = commands, reports, regulations, manuals, instructions; diplomatic documents (notes, declarations, agreements, treaties).

B) D.Crystal

regional, social, occupational, restricted and individual.

Regional varieties reflect the geographical origin of the language used by the speaker:

Social variations testify to the speaker’s family, education, social status background:

- Occupational styles:

- Religious English

- Scientific English

- Legal English

- Plain (official) English

- Political English

- News media English:

· newsreporting

· journalistics

· broadcasting

· sportscommentary

· advertising

Restricted English appears both in domestic and occupational spheres:

· Knitwrite in books on knitting

· Cookwrite in recipe books

· Congratulatory messagrs

· Newspaper announcements

· Newspaper headlines

· Sportscasting scores

· Airspeak, the language of air traffic control

· Emergencyspeak, the language of emergency services

· E-mail variety

Individual variation arise from the speaker’s personal differences meaning such features as interests, physique, personality, experience.

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