Syntactical and compositional Features of Colloquial Style, Familiar Colloquial Style, Publicist style, The Style of Official Documents and Scientific Style

Syntactical

1. Literary Colloquial Style: a) use of simple sentences with a number of participial and infinitive constructions and numerous parentheses, b) use of various types of syntactical compression, simplicity of syntactical connection, c) prevalence of active and finite verb forms, d) use of grammar forms for emphatic purposes (progressive verb forms to express emotions of irritation, anger), e) decomposition and ellipsis of sentence in a dialogue, f) use of special colloquial phrases (that friend of yours).

2. Familiar Colloquial Style: a) use of short simple sentences, b) dialogues are usually of the question-answer type, c) use of echo-questions, parallel constructions, repetitions, d) coordination is used more often than subordination, e) extensive use of ellipsis, f) extensive use of tautology, g) abundance of gap-fillers and parenthetical elements (sure indeed, well).

3. Publicist style: a) frequent use ofrhetorical questions and interrogatives in oratory speech, b) in headlines (use of impersonal sentences, elliptical constructions, interrogative sentences), c) in news items and articles (news items comprise one or two, rarely three, sentences), d) absence of complex coordination with chain of subordinate clauses and a number of conjunctions, e) prepositional phrases are used much ore than synonymous gerundial phrases, f) absence of exclamatory sentences, break-in-the narrative

4. Style of Official Documents: a) use of long sentences with several types of coordination and subordination, b) use of passive and participial constructions, numerous connectives, c) use of objects, attributes and all sorts of modifiers, d) extensive use of detached constructions and parenthesis, e) use of participle I and II, f) a general syntactical mode of combining several pronouncements into one sentence.

5. Scientific Style: a) complete and standard syntactical mode of expression, b) direct word order, c) use of lengthy sentences with subordinate clauses, d) extensive use of participial, gerundial and infinitive complexes, e) extensive use of adverbial and prepositional phrases, f) frequent use of parenthesis introduced by a dash, g) abundance of attributive groups with a descriptive function, h) avoidances of ellipsis, i) frequent use of passive and non-finite verb forms, j) use of impersonal forms and sentences such as mention should be, assuming that.

Compositional

1. Literary Colloquial Style: a) can be used in written and spoken varieties (dialogue, monologue, personal letters, essays, articles), b) prepared types of texts may have thought out and logical composition, to a certain extent determined by conventional forms, c) spontaneous types have a loose structure, relative coherence and uniformity of form and content.

2. Familiar Colloquial Style: a) use of deviant language on all levels, b) strong emotional coloring, c) loose syntactical organization of an utterance, d)frequently little coherence or adherence to the topic, e) no special compositional patterns.

3. Publicist style: a) carefully selected vocabulary, b) variety of topics, c) wide use of quotations, direct speech and represented speech, d) use of parallel constructions, e) in oratory (simplicity of structural expression), f) in headlines (use of devices to arrest attention: pun, puzzle etc), g) in news items (strict arrangement of titles and subtitles), h) careful division on paragraph.

4. Style of Official Documents: a) special compositional design (coded graphical layout, clear-cut subdivision of texts into units of formation), b) conventional composition of treaties, agreements, protocols, c) use of stereotyped, official phraseology, d) accurate use of punctuation, e) generally objective, concrete, unemotional and impersonal style of narration

5. Scientific Style: a) highly formalized text with the prevalence of formulae, tables etc, b) in humanitarian texts: descriptive narration, supplied with argumentation and interpretation, c) logical and consistent narration, sequential presentation of material and facts, d) extensive use of citations, e) extensive use of EM and SD, f) extensive use of conventional set phrases at certain points to emphasize the logical character of the narration, g) use of digressions to debate or support a certain point, h) introduction, chapters, paragraph, conclusion, i) extensive use of double conjunctions like as…as, either…or, both…and, etc, j)compositionally arranged sentence patterns: postulatory (at the beginning), argumentative (in the central part), formulative (in the conclusion)

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