Medical text styles. Peculiarities. (45 min)

Функциональные стили — научный, разговорный, деловой, поэтический, ораторский и публицистический — являются подсистемами языка, каждая из которых обладает своими специфическими особенностями в лексике и фразеологии, в синтаксических конструкциях, а иногда и в фонетике.

Группа книжных стилей включает научный, деловой, или официально-документальный, публицистический, или газетный, ораторский и возвышенно-поэтический.

В разговорном стиле принято различать три разновидности: литературно-разговорный, фамильярно-разговорный и просто­речие. Две последние имеют еще региональные особенности, а также особенности, зависящие от пола и возраста говорящего.

We have already mentioned the problem of what is known as functional styles (FS) of language (see Lesson 1). FSs should be distinguished from varieties of language. The main difference is that the written and oral varieties of language are merely forms of communication which depend on the situation in which the communication is maintained, i.e. on the presence or absence of an interlocutor, whereas FSs are patterns of the written variety of language. Each functional style of the literary' language makes use of language means the interrelation of which is peculiar to the given FS.

An FS is a patterned variety of literary text characterized by the greater or lesser typification of its constituents, supra-phrasal units (SPU), in which the choice and arrangement of interdependent and interwoven language media are calculated to secure the purport of the communication.

A. THE BELLES-LETTRES STYLE

The belles-lettres style is a generic term for three substyles in which the main principles and the most general properties of the style are materialized. These three substyles are:

1. The language of poetry, or simply verse.

2. Emotive pгоse, or the language of fiction.

3. Т'helanguage of the drama

B. PUBLICISTSSTYLE

1.Oratoryandspeeches.

2. The essay.

3. Journalistic articles

C. NEWSPAPER STYLE

1. Brief news items.

2. Advertisementsandannouncements.

3. Headlines/

4. Theeditorial

D. SCIENTIFIC PROSE STYLE

E. THE STYLE OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS