3. The concept of style.

Different scholars have defined style differently at different times. In 1955 the Academician V.V. Vinogradov defined style as “socially determined and functionally conditioned internally united totality of the ways of using, selecting and combining the means of lingual intercourse in the sphere of one national language or another”. In 1971 Prof. I.R. Galperin offered his definition of style as “is a system of co-ordinated, interrelated and inter-conditioned language means intended to fulfil a specific function of communication and aiming at a definite effect”. According to Prof. Screbnev “style is what differentiates a group of homogeneous texts from all other groups… Style can be roughly defined as the peculiarity, the set of specific features of text type or of a specific text”.

4. The problems of functional styles of language. Different points of view on the classification of styles of the English language.

Functional stylistics deals with sets, "paradigms" of language units of all levels of language hierarchy serving to accommodate the needs of certain typified communicative situations. These paradigms are known as functional styles of the language. Functional style is formulated by I. R. Galperin as "a system of coordinated, interrelated and interconditioned language means intended to fulfil a specific function of communication and aiming at a definite effect." One of the problems of stylistic research is the number of functional styles; The authors of handbooks on different languages propose systems of styles based on a broad subdivision of all styles into 2 classes – literary and colloquial and their varieties. These generally include from three to five functional styles. Galperin’s system of styles: 1. Belles-lettres style (poetry, emotive prose, drama); 1. Publicist (oratory and speeches, essay, article); 3. Newspaper (brief news items, headlines, ads, editorial); 4. scientific prose; 5. official documents. Arnold’s system of styles: 1. Poetic; 2. Scientific; 3. Newspaper; 4. Colloquial. Screbnev’s system of styles: Number of styles is infinite.

5. The style of scientific prose and its substyles.

The style of scientific prose has 3 subdivisions: 1) the style of humanitarian sciences; 2) the style of "exact" sciences; 3) the style of popular scientific prose.

Its function is to work out and ground theoretically objective knowledge about reality.

The aim of communication is to create new concepts, disclose the international laws of existence.

The peculiarities are: objectiveness; logical coherence, impersonality, unemotional character, exactness.

Vocabulary. The use of terms and words used to express a specialized concept in a given branch of science. Terms are not necessarily. They may be borrowed from ordinary language but are given a new meaning.

The scientific prose style consists mostly of ordinary words which tend to be used in their primary logical meaning. Emotiveness depends on the subject of investigation but mostly scientific prose style is unemotional.

Grammar: The logical presentation and cohesion of thought manifests itself in a developed feature of scientific syntax is the use of established patterns.

- postulatory;

- formulative;

- argumentative;

The impersonal and objective character of scientific prose style is revealed in the frequent use of passive constructions, impersonal sentences. Personal sentences are more frequently used in exact sciences. In humanities we may come across constructions but few.

The parallel arrangement of sentences contributes to emphasizing certain points in the utterance.

Some features of the style in the text are:

- use of quotations and references;

- use of foot-notes helps to preserve the logical coherence of ideas.

Humanities in comparison with "exact" sciences employ more emotionally coloured words, fewer passive constructions. Scientific popular style has the following peculiarities: emotive words, elements of colloquial style