MAIN FEATURES OF PUBLICISTIC STYLE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The publicistic style became a separate style in the middle of the 18^th century. It falls into three varieties. Unlike other literary styles, the publicistic style has a spoken variety – the oratorical sub-style. The development of radio and television has brought into being a new spoken variety of the radio and television commentary. The other two sub-styles are essay (moral, philosophical, literary) and journalistic articles (political, social, economic) in newspapers, journals and magazines. In this article there is given information about the main features of publicistic style in English language.