Belles-lettres style.
The b-l style is a general term for 3 substyles:
- the language of poetry
- emotive prose
- the language of drama
The common features:
Aesthetic-cognitive – get the idea of the text and get pleasure while reading
Certain linguistic features of belles-letters style:
Imagery, the use of words in contextual meaning, a vocabulary, which will reflect the author attitude, individual selection of vocabulary and syntax.
Language of poetry
Based mostly on rhythmic and phonetic arrangements. Rhythm and rhyme are studied under the term of prosody.
Emotive prose.
Allows the use of elements from other styles as well. Not so rich, as language of poetry. Two forms – dialogue and monologue. Fragmentation of syntactical models and gap-sentences link are introduced in modern emotive prose.
The language of drama
The language of plays is entirely dialogue, it is always stylized and characters utterances are generally much longer.
The Style of Official Documents
1) Language of business letters; 2) Language of legal documents; 3) Language of diplomacy; 4) Language of military documents; The aim: 1. to reach agreement between two contracting parties; 2. to state the conditions binding two parties in an understanding. Each of substyles of official documents makes use of special terms. Legal documents: military documents, diplomatic documents. The documents use set expressions inherited from early Victorian period. This vocabulary is conservative. Legal documents contain a large proportion of formal and archaic words used in their dictionary meaning. In diplomatic and legal documents many words have Latin and French origin. There are a lot of abbreviations and conventional symbols. The most noticeable feature of grammar is the compositional pattern. Every document has its own stereotyped form. The form itself is informative and tells you with what kind of letter we deal with. Business letters contain: heading, addressing, salutation, the opening, the body, the closing, complimentary clause, the signature. Syntactical features of business letters are - the predominance of extended simple and complex sentences, wide use of participial constructions, homogeneous members. Morphological peculiarities are passive constructions, they make the letters impersonal. There is a tendency to avoid pronoun reference. Its typical feature is to frame equally important factors and to divide them by members in order to avoid ambiguity of the wrong interpretation.
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