In different speech situations we got used to use various styles of the speech. Styles of the speech in Russian are divided into two groups: colloquial and book. And book in turn are divided into art, publicistic, official and scientific. Each functional style of the speech has own features.
Instruction
1. Colloquial style. The colloquial style serves for daily communication when the person shares the feelings or thoughts with people around in an informal situation. At it there is colloquial and colloquial vocabulary. This style differs from others in the big semantic capacity, beauty, it gives to your speech expressivity and brightness. Speech genres: dialogue, conversation, private conversation or private letters. Language means: figurativeness, simplicity, emotionality, expressiveness of vocabulary, use of parenthesises, interjections, repetitions, words addresses.
2. Scientific style. The main function of scientific style – the reporting of information, the facts and the proof of their validity. Speech genres: scientific article, monograph, educational literature, report, thesis, etc. Language means: terminology, existence of general scientific words, professionalism, abstract vocabulary. Lines of style: prevalence of nouns in the offer, logicality, accuracy, substantiality, unambiguity, generality, objectivity.
3. Official style. It is used for informing people in an official situation. The official style is applied in the following documents: laws, orders, receipts, references, protocols, etc. Scope of this style – the right, the author can act as the lawyer, the diplomat, the jurist or just the citizen. Style lines: accuracy, standartizirovannost, lack of emotionality, existence of speech cliches, use of terminology, abbreviations.
4. Publicistic style. The publicistic style serves for informing people in mass media. This style can be met in reports, articles, an interview, essays, the oratorical speech. Information transferred in publicistic style is intended not for a narrow circle of people, and for wide population groups. Style lines: emotionality, prizyvnost, logicality, estimation.
5. Art style. It is used in fiction. The purpose of art style is to influence the reader, to give feelings and thoughts of the author, his experience. Style lines: emotionality of the speech, figurativeness, use of all richness of vocabulary.