Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN (Mar 2012)
Stylistic qualification of words in English
Abstract
The article is devoted to stylistic qualification of English lexis, represented through the system of stylistic labels in English explanatory dictionaries. Bookish and colloquial styles are well-defined, although sphere of passage as well as their interpenetrability is not excluded. Both archaisms and regionalisms are referred to stylistic labels.