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Scientific functional Style.
The main aim of the functional style of scientific prose is to prove hypothesis, to create new concepts and to disclose the internal laws of existence, development, relations between different phenomena, etc. The language means, therefore, tend to b objective, precise, and unemotional, devoid of individuality; there is striving for the most generalized form of expression.
The most noticeable features of this style
1. The logical sequence of utterances with clear indications of their interrelations and interdependence.
2. developed and varied system of connectives.
. The use of terms specific to each given branch of science. But due to the rapid dissemination of scientific and technical ideas, we observe the process of "determinization", that is, some scientific and technical terms begin to circulate outside the narrow field they belong to and eventually begin to develop new meanings.
4. Peculiar sentence patterns which b of three types: Postulator, Argumentative, and Formulate.
5. The use of quotations and references, which also have definite compositional pattern, namely, the of the writer referred to, the title of the work quoted, the publishing house, the place and r it was published, and the page of the excerpt quoted r referred to.
6. The use of foot-notes digressive in character. This is in full accord with the main requirement of the style, which is logical coherence of ideas expressed.
7. The impersonality of scientific writings.
There is noticeable difference in the syntactical design of utterances in the exact sciences (mathematics, chemistry, physics, etc.) and in the humanities. The passive constructions frequently used in the scientific prose of the exact sciences not indispensable in the humanities. This, perhaps, is due to the fact that the data and methods of investigation applied in the humanities less objective.
