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FUNCTIONAL STYLES
Учебно-методическое пособие содержит теоретический материал по теме «Функциональные стили», а также тексты и задания
для закрепления материала. <...> Write about students' cheating in exams in the style of one of
genres below:
Scientific
Prose
Oratorical
Speech
Newspaper
Headline
Essay
Official
Document
Ad
Fairy-tale
Newspaper
Article
2. <...> What features of each
the class and compare them. <...> Do genre can you distinguish?
they have a lot in common? <...> Functional Styles
Functional Style is a system of interrelated language means,
which serves a definite aim in communication. <...> The peculiar choice of language means
is primarily dependent on the aim of the communication, on the function the style performs. <...> It includes the belles-lettres style, the publicistic style, the
newspaper style, the scientific prose style, and the style of official
documents. <...> There is no unanimous opinion on the problem of distinguishing the belles-style as a separate one on the ground that fiction is
in fact individual creative work of a writer who makes use of all the
subsystems of the language – both the norm with its functional styles
and regional and social varieties (slang, jargon, dialects). <...> Colloquial
style is also a problem – it is a controversial issue, as it may include
different features of different styles. <...> While analysing a text and referring it to a particular
style or a substyle, one should bear in mind that style divisions do not
coincide in different languages (as a result of tradition, language structure and some other grounds). <...> Thus, a scientific text in English would
sound like a popular-scientific one in Russian. <...> It is especially tangible
in text headlines (e.g. Good Birds and Better Birds for an article in
cognitive science)
In English-speaking tradition in this respect it is more common
to differentiate between two types of discourse – scientific and journalistic writing, the main basis for differentiation there being the type
of the addressee – a specialist and a general reader respectively. <...> Then
texts can be further subdivided according to the topic they discuss into
economic, social, political and other types of discourse. <...> The difference between the journalistic and scientific writing
can be also seen in the structure of statements that underlie the text –
radial or chain (or concatenation).
supporting
statements
Thesis
statement <...>