Филологические науки/7. Язык, речь, речевая коммуникация

A.V. Kats, T.V. Groshko

Bukovyna State Finance Academy

Bélles-léttres style

Literally, belles-lettres is a French phrase meaning "beautiful" or "fine" writing.

There are a lot of different styles in the modern english literature. One of the greatest and the most important styles of English is bélles-léttres style. It always attracked the attention explorers owning to its unusual status among other styles of the language.

The bélles-léttres style can regard as generalization and union all the style and literary genres. The whole structure of the style and literary language depict vividly and significant most of all in the works of famous writers.

The style differ its figurativeness and expressiveness and because of its particulary expressive qualities distinctly emphasize among other various style.

"The language works of art have usually enough variations than business language. But they are not so patent and in any situation they don't easily rank. The main thing is that they have absolutely another sense: they must depict all that multiplicity of colloquial, social, partly geografical dialects, which consist this literary language. Through the language is pictured that social environment, which include active persons..." – noted L.V.Sherba, who compared language of belles – letter to language of official correspondence. It isn’t right utterly dissociate bélles-léttres style from other styles. After all, absorbing itself meanings all other styles, the bélles-léttres style can develop.

The main its meanings are:

· figurativeness ( type of character type of symbol);

· poetical description of reality in the prose and dramatics;

· aesthetics of speech ( the function is that it must excite the feeling of beautiful in the reader);

· expression like activity of emotions ( presentation, caressing, tenderness, humorous, ironical);

· representability ( tropes: comparision, metaphors; poetical form);

· subjectivism of comperhension and imagery ( individual mentality, world view and according to ideology of author directs to individual mentality and intelligence of the reader).

Based on the meanings we can say that bélles-léttres style is the special method of thinking, creation the lingual picture of the world.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia, for example, described belles-lettres as the "department of literature which implies literary culture and belongs to the domain of art, whatever the subject may be or the special form; it includes poetry, the drama, fiction, and criticism," while the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition describes it as "the more artistic and imaginative forms of literature, as poetry or romance, as opposed to more pedestrian and exact studies."

A lot of examples of literary language reproduce in the bélles-léttres style and surely happen modification, renewal expressive means, transmit national colourful of emotional imagery of the reality.

For many modern purposes, bélles-léttres is used in a narrower sense to identify literary works that do not fall into other major categories, such as fiction, poetry or drama. It would include essays, récits, published collections of speeches and letters, satirical and humorous writings, and other miscellaneous works.

The Oxford English Dictionary says that "it is now generally applied (when used at all) to the lighter branches of literature."

The term remains in use among librarians and others who have to classify books: while a large library might have separate categories for essays, letters, humor and so forth (and most of them are assigned different codes in, for example, the Dewey decimal classification system), in libraries of modest size they are often all grouped together under the heading bélles-léttres.

In my opinion the style is one of important part of the literature. It fulfills the most vital importance and function. That is to say the aesthetic, which is influenced by means of the bélles-léttres word through the system of figure on the intellect, feelings and wishes of the readers. This style models ideological views, moral and aesthetic tastes.

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