Functional stylistics

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Under functional stylistics is the one branch of linguistic stylistics to understand the observation and theoretical foundation, the functional styles dedicated. Functional styles are the specific ways of using language that arise in a language community under certain communication conditions. In general, it can be stated that the expressions used in everyday language differ from those in the language of science. Since functional styles develop depending on the communication areas, Fleischer, Michel and Starke prefer to speak of area styles .

Functional styles

Occurrence frequency of free relative clauses (2-10 % ) in a body of relative clauses in Serbocroat

Functional stylistics emerged from Prague and Soviet functionalist linguistics ( Elise Riesel ). She notes that in a language community, different typical expressions and styles develop in different areas of communication . A total of 4 to 5 such communication areas are assumed: communication in everyday life, in the press and journalism, in science, in public transport (= style of the authorities and courts) and in fiction . The different authors have different definitions, names and numbers of these styles. Studies of stylistic phenomena are often based on one of the models of functional stylistics.

See also

literature

  • Wolfgang Beutin: language criticism - style criticism. An introduction. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1976, pp. 88-101. ISBN 3-17-001888-4 .
  • Wolfgang Fleischer, Georg Michel, with the collaboration of Rosemarie Gläser , Wolfgang Heinemann, Ursula Kellers and Günter Starke: Stylistics of the German contemporary language. 2, unchanged edition. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1977, pp. 23-27. (First edition 1975)
  • Bernd Spillner: Linguistics and literary studies. Style research, rhetoric, text linguistics. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1974, especially pp. 56–58. ISBN 3-17-001734-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Fleischer, Georg Michel, Günter Starke: Stylistics of the German contemporary language . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main and others 1993, p. 30. ISBN 3-631-44771-X .
  2. ↑ Cornelia Schindelin: The quantitative study of the Chinese language and writing. In: Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann, Rajmund G. Piotrowski (eds.): Quantitative Linguistics - Quantitative Linguistics. An international manual . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, pp. 947-970, pp. 960f. on investigations into Chinese, based on functional stylistics. ISBN 3-11-015578-8 .