5. Stylistic Differentiation of the English Vocabulary

All the words comprising the vocabulary of a well-developed language may be divided into three groups : neutral , literary and colloquial. While neutral words merely signify corresponding phenomena, literary and colloquial ones bear some additional information as to the quality, manner, etc. Of the object. The majority of literary and colloquial words have synonyms in the neutral layer of the vocabulary. E.g. child – neutral, infant - literary, kid - colloquial, go away - neutral, retire – literary, get out - colloquial.

6. Functional Styles of English

According to Galperin: Functional Style is a system of interrelated language means serving a definite aim in communication. It is the coordination of the language means and stylistic devices which shapes the distinctive features of each style and not the language means or stylistic devices themselves. Each style, however, can be recognized by one or more leading features which are especially conspicuous. For instance the use of special terminology is a lexical characteristics of the style of scientific prose, and one by which it can easily be recognized.

Functional styles:

1. official style, represented in all kinds of official documents and papers;

2. scientific style, found in articles, brochures, monographs and other scientific and academic publications;

3. publicist style, covering such genres as essay, feature article, most writings of "new journalism", public speeches, etc.;

4. newspaper style, observed in the majority of information materials printed in newspapers;

5. belles-lettres style, embracing numerous and versatile genres of imaginative writing.