Functional styles
1. What scholar identified five main functional styles of English?
Galperin
2. Which three substyles belong to the belles-lettres style?
Emotive prose, poetry and drama
3. What are macrotexts and microtexts?
Macrotexts are large texts like novels or articles; microtexts are short texts like fables or proverbs.
4. What is hybridization of styles?
The blending of two or more functional styles in one text.
5. Name any five functional styles distinguished by Galperin.
belles-lettres, scientific, newspaper, publicistic, official documents.
6. Give three example of a genre in the belles-lettres style.
Story, novel, fable
7. How are texts divided according to the form of speech?
oral and written
8. Which sphere most often demonstrates hybrid texts?
Mass media (especially newspapers).
9. What is the main aim of a functional style in communication?
To serve a definite communicative purpose through specific language means.
10. What are the substyles of the scientific style according to Chernyavskaya (2009)?
Academic, informative, critical, popular, and educational
11. What criterion divides texts into socio-political, academic, juridical, and religious types?
The sphere of communication.
12. What stylistic devices often accompany hybridization in journalistic writing?
Metaphors, epithets, repetition, and gradation.
13. Which functional style is used in texts addressing moral or political issues?
Publicistic style
14. Which classification criterion differentiates between description, narration, and reasoning?
Context-variable criterion
15. What is text heterogeneity?
The combination of different stylistic elements within one text to create contrast or humor