среда, 15 мая 2013 г.

Урок 57. Нейтральный стиль. Lesson 57. The Neutral Register.

This is the norm of an educated speaker, the standard form of the language that is used for polite but not especially formal communication. It might be used in broadcasting, among colleagues at work, by educated people who do not know each other very well, by teachers to their pupils. It is the register that the foreign student as a rule first learns and which is most suitable for his or her first official or social contacts with native speakers.
It is ‘correct’ without being fussy or pedantic. This register is perhaps best defined in negative terms, as
lacking the distinctive colloquial features of the colloquial register and the bookish
features of the higher register, though it may to some extent contain elements of both
without altogether taking on a colloquial or bookish colouring. Both forms of address, ты and вы, are possible in the neutral register, depending on the degree of intimacy between the people speaking. First names and
patronymics are likely to be used between acquaintances. On the other  hand, secondary diminutive forms of first names (e.g. Катюшeнькa, Машенька) might seem overfamiliar.

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