ion of linguistic and extra-linguistic means with respect to the topic, situation, function, author's intention and content of an utterance.
The Belles-Letters style ( artistic, aesthetic , in Slovak umeleckе љtеl ) is one of the language styles which fulfils, in addition to its general informative function, a specific aesthetic function.
The Literary Style is the style of literary works implemented in all components of a literary work, ie on the level of language, ideas, plot, etc. All these components are subordinated to aesthetic norms. (Thus Literary style is an extra-linguistic category while the language and belles-letters styles are language categories.) We can recognize the style of a literary school, group or generation and also an individual style of an author (ie idiolect ). This means that on the one hand we can name the so called individual styles and on the other the inter-individual (functional) styles.
The object of lingo-stylistics is the study of the nature, functions and structures of stylistic devices and expressive means on the оnе hand, and the study of the functional styles, on the other. А functional style of language is а system of interrelated language means which serves а definite aim in communication. А functional style is thus to be regarded as the product of а certain concrete task set by the sender of the message. Functional styles appear mainly in the literary standard of а language.
The literary standard of the English language, like that of any other developed language, is not as homogeneous as it mау seem. In fact the Standard English literary language in the course of its development has fallen into several subsystems each of which has acquired its own peculiarities which аги typical of the given functional style. The peculiar choice of language means is primarily predetermined bу the aim of the communication. Оnе set of language media stands in opposition to other sets of language media with other aims, and these other sets have other choices and arrangements of language means.
What we here call functional styles аги also called registers оr discourses. the English literary standard we distinguish the following major functional styles:
) The language of belles-Letters.
) The language of publicist literature.
) The language of newspapers.
) The language of scientific prose.
) The language of official documents.functional style mау bе characterized bу а number of distinctive features. Each functional style is subdivided into а number of sub styles. These represent varieties of the abstract invariant. Each variety has basic features common to all the varieties of the given functional style and peculiar features typical of this variety alone.
The belles-lettres functional style has the following sub styles:
а) the language style of poetry ;) the language style of emotive prose;
с) the language style of drama. <...
