1. О. Morokhovsky;

2. I. Galperin;

3. Ch. Bally;

4. J. Swift.

4. Decide what style is represented in the following extract:

It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.

1. belles-lettres;

2. publicistic;

3. newspaper;

4. scientific prose.

5. Decide what style is represented in the following extract:

In the process of teaching Foreign Languages at higher educational establishments we distinguish between General English Major, English Minor, and English as a Foreign Language. General English includes corrective courses in Practical Phonetics, Practical Grammar, etc. English Major covers theoretical and practical courses in main linguistic disciplines.

1. belles-lettres;

2. publicistic;

3. newspaper;

4. scientific prose.

6. What are the 2 approaches to stylistic stratification of the English language?

7. Name the type of classification of the given scheme:

1. classification of FS on the basis of functions of the language (beles-lettres style, oratorial style, lecturing style);

2. classification of FS on the basis of criteria of the sphere of the usage of the language (oral and written );

3. classification of FS on the basis of 3 basic features of differentiation (emotionality - unemotionality, spontaneity - non-spontaneity, normativity - abnormativity).

1. according to the inductive approach (from specific to general);

2. according to the deductive approach (from general to specific);

3. I. Galperin's classification;

4. O. Morokhovsky's classification.

8. What functional style do the following linguistic features characterize?

1. Genuine, not trite, imagery, achieved by purely linguistic devices.

2. The use of words in contextual and very often in more than one dictionary meaning, or at least greatly influenced by the lexical environment.

3. A vocabulary which will reflect to a greater or lesser degree the author's personal evaluation of things or phenomena.

4. A peculiar individual selection of vocabulary and syntax, a kind of lexical and syntactical idiosyncrasy.

5. The introduction of the typical features of colloquial language to a full degree (in plays) or a lesser one (in emotive prose) or a slight degree, if any (in poems).

1. belles-lettres style;

2. the publicistic style;

3. the scientific prose style;

4. the official document style.

9. What functional style do the following linguistic features characterize?

1. conventionality of expression;

2. absence of any emotiveness;

3. the encoded character of language symbols 9including abbreviations;

4. a general syntactical mode of combining several pronouncements into one sentence.

1. belles-lettres style;

2. the publicistic style;

3. the scientific prose style;

4. the official document style.

10. Who of the linguists subdivided the belles-lettres style into the language of poetry, emotive prose, and the language of drama?