The object of stylistic study. Branches of stylistics. Stylistics and other linguistic disciplines

Another problem has to do with a whole set of special linguistic means that create what we call «style». Prof- J- R- Galperin offered his definition of style s a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication». According to Prof. Y. M. Skrebnev «style is what differentiates a group of homogeneous texts (an individual text) from all other groups (other texts)... Style can be roughly defined as the peculiarity, the set of specific features of a text type or of a specific text».