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Marissa U. Mozo BSED-ENGLISH III

A. Supply the functional styles of the English language in Science, Newspaper, Official
Documents, and Literary using the diagram below. Write your answers in bullet form.

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS:
● The vocabulary is conservative. SCIENCE:
● There are a lot of abbreviations and
●To work out and ground the
conventional symbols.
theoretically objective knowledge
● Its typical feature is to frame
about reality.
equally important factors and to
● The aim of communication is to
divide them by members in order to
create new concepts and disclose the
avoid ambiguity of the wrong
international laws of concepts.
interpretation.
●The use of terms and words used
● Morphological peculiarities are
to express a specialized concept in a
passive constructions
given branch of science.

FUNCTIONAL
STYLES OF THE
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE

LITERARY OR LITERATURE: NEWSPAPER:

●Its function is aesthetic- cognitive; ●Its (brief news item) function is to

● Genuine imaginative means and inform the reader; it states the facts
stylistic devices without giving comments.
●The individual choice of ● Its (headline) main function is to
vocabulary which reflects the inform the reader briefly what the
author’s personal evaluation news is to follow about.
●The peculiar individual selection ●The function (of advertisement
of syntax and/or announcement) is to inform
the reader. In classified, the
information is arranged according to
the subject matter.
B. Elaborate your answers in a paragraph form (at least two or more paragraphs).
Observe the following writing mechanics/conventions when writing your paragraphs:
content – 15 points; grammar – 10 points; and organization or structure (following the
correct format) – 5 points.

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. A functional style of language is a system of interrelated
language means which serves a definite aim in communication.
In the English literary standard Galperin distinguishes the following major
functional styles (FS): belles-lettres; literary or literature. Official documents; The
official documents Functional Style can be divided into four varieties: style of diplomatic
documents; of business documents; of legal documents; of military documents; the style
of official documents, is the most conservative one. It preserves cast-iron forms of
structuring and uses syntactical constructions and words long known as archaic and not
observed anywhere else. Scientific prose: the scientific prose Functional Style also
has three divisions: style of humanitarian sciences; of ‘exact’ sciences; of military
documents; is employed in professional communication. Its most conspicuous feature is
the abundance of terms denoting objects, phenomena and processes characteristic of
some particular field of science and technique. Literary or Literature Functional Style
has an aesthetic-cognitive function (a function which aims at the cognitive process,
which secures the gradual unfolding of the idea to the reader and at the same time calls
forth a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction which a reader experiences because he/she
is able to penetrate into the author’s idea and to form his own conclusions). Genuine,
not trite, imagery, achieved by purely linguistic devices. $ vocabulary which will reflect to
a certain degree the author’s personal evaluation of things or phenomena. The
Newspaper Functional Style falls into: style of brief news items and communiques; of
newspaper headlines; of notices and advertisements as it is evident from its name, is
found in newspapers. You should not conclude though that everything published in a
newspaper should be referred to the newspaper style. The paper contains vastly
varying materials, some of them being publicist essays, some-feature articles, some-
scientific reviews, some-official stock-exchange accounts etc., so that a daily (weekly)
newspaper also offers a variety of styles.