Functional Styles. Афанасьева Н.Р - 34 стр.

       3. Think what should be done in order to turn bare facts into     UNIT 8
thrilling stories. What techniques can be employed (e. g. dialogues,     BELLES-LETTRES STYLE
expressive means, etc.)? Exchange your ideas.
       4. Now, individually, write your story thinking carefully about
                                                                                                                                     Belles-Lettres Style
how to bring it alive and make it interesting for the reader.
       5. Analyse your stories and point out the features distinguish-
ing a story from an article. Discuss them in class.                                               Language of Poetry                     Language of Drama
                                                                                                               Language of Fiction (prose)

                                                                                                  Belles-Lettres Style

                                                                                                                                                                     Features




                                                                                              Function
                                                                         Substyle
                                                                                                                             Typical for Style                 Typical for Substyle

                                                                                                                     • there are no unique features as     • rhythm and rhyme phone-
                                                                                                                     this style is not homogeneous: it     tic means (alliteration, asso-
                                                                                                                     contains vocabulary and syntax        nance)
                                                                                                                     of different registers and styles     • fresh, unexpected imagery




                                                                         Language of Poetry

                                                                                              aesthetico-cognitive
                                                                                                                     • the choice of the form and          (wide use of expressive
                                                                                                                     means depends on the author's         means)
                                                                                                                     preferences solely                    • wide use of syntactic
                                                                                                                     • wide variety of stylistic devices   means:
                                                                                                                     and expressive means of differ-       detached constructions, asyn-
                                                                                                                     ent kinds                             deton, polysyndeton, inver-
                                                                                                                     • use of words in contextual and      sion, elliptical and fragmen-
                                                                                                                     often in more than one dictionary     tary sentences
                                                                                                                     meaning                               • a great number of emotion-
                                                                                                                                                           nally coloured words

                                                                                                                                                           • combination of the spoken



                                                                         Fiction (prose)
                                                                                                                                                           and written varieties of lan-
                                                                                                                                                           guage
                                                                                                                                                           • two forms of communica-
                                                                                                                                                           tion (monologue and dia-
                                                                                                                                                           logue)



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