Linguistic characteristics of functional styles: a quantitative analysis

The object of in this dissertation is the linguistic expression of written texts in terms of 3 functional styles – administrative, scientific and publicist. These styles were studied from the perspective of quantitative linguistics and quantitative methods there were applied. The theoretical part of the work presents concise history of functional stylistics, discusses concept of functional style and typologies of functional styles. Furthermore, a review of quantitative research is briefly described, and the quantitative indicators used in the study, denoting individual features of the studied functional styles, are presented in detail. In the empirical part of the work firstly research material and methodology is introduced, then – the results are presented. The study of the linguistic expression of administrative, scientific and publicist functional styles carried out in this work allowed to examine linguistic expression of these styles both individually and in comparison to each other as well, thus distinguishing the generalized linguistic expression models of the targeted functional styles. Also, significant findings this study are the following ones: 1) the linguistic expression of individual functional styles, without comparing them with each other, is represented by different combinations of features, 2) in comparison to each other, each targeted functional style reveals a different scope of features of linguistic expression, 3) quantitative characteristics used in this study are interrelated