What is style?

Style is

• a mode of expressing thought in language (a manner of expression characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation)
• a manner or tone assumed in discourse, or
• the custom or plan followed in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and typographic arrangement and display.

• Concept module: style
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): S
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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