Stylistic aspect of translation

THE NOTION OF FUNCTIONAL STYLE
Lecture 1

Different scholars have defined style differently at different times.
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V. V. VINOGRADOV (1955)
Style: «socially recognized and functionally conditioned internally united totality of the ways of using, selecting and combining the means of lingual intercourse in the sphere of one national language or another...»

Y. M. SKREBNEV (1994)
Style: «what differentiates a group of homogeneous texts (an individual text) from all other groups (other texts). Style can be roughly defined as the peculiarity, the set of specific features of a text type or of a specific text»

1. A variety of the national language.
2. Generally accepted linguistic identity.
3. Individual manner of expression.
LINGUISTIC LITERATURE DEFINITIONS

Literary language
Dialects
Sociolects

THEORY OF FUNCTIONAL STYLES
Norm
Function
Style