Personal style of communication, individual style of a writer, etc

Oratory, scientific, familiar or publicistic style

Cockney, upper-class, educated English

Awareness of the range of situations in which a language can be used

How we use the language under specific circumstances for a specific purpose

a result of a certain task set by the speaker/writer

T. Znamenskaya - style =

1. social and regional varieties of the national language:

neutral, literary (high) and colloquial (low):

2. generally accepted categories of texts characterized by special choice of linguistic means and composition of a speech act:

3. individual manner of expression determined by personal factors:

Style

V.Vinigradov: socially recognized and functionally conditioned ways of using, selecting and combining the means of lingual communication

Prof. Galperin: a system of interrelated language means, which serves a definite aim in communication

Prof. Skrebnev: the set of specific features of a text type (specificity of sublanguage)

style = systematic and functionally determined

style = a product of a certain concrete function / task set by the sender of the message

formal and informal styles

formal = lectures, public speeches, radio announcements, official and business talks

Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream”, 1963

“I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. And with this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”

informal = colloquial speech in personal everyday non-official communication

“ Don’t nobody try to fancy pants. Freeze the mitts on the bar. Yeah. You’ll know me. You ain’t forgetting me, pals, just tell them johns not to get careless is all. Well, so long, punks. I gotta catch a street car.” (R. Chandler Farewell, My Lovely)

one idea different language subsystems = FS

factors which condition the types of FS:

social roles of the speaker and the listener (students- lecturers)

the personal factor (a personal letter – a business letter)

social situation (formal – informal)

pragmatic aims (advertisement – political leaflet – a poem)

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