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The textbook deals with key concepts and general issues of stylistics: culture of speech, the concept of norms in stylistics, individual style, text as a category of linguistic stylistics, stylistic semasiology. General information about the Japanese stylistic tradition is given.

The section «Stylistics of language levels» analyses the peculiarities of functioning of stylistic means at different strata of the Japanese language: phonetic, lexical, syntactic; the role played by graphic means and means of word formation for stylistics is described in detail.

The chapter on functional stylistics discusses the concept of functional style and its importance for the Japanese language; it covers official business, scientific and technical, journalistic, artistic, epistolary and colloquial styles.

The theme of respectfulness, politeness, and etiquette in communication, which has always been and remains one of the main features of Japanese linguistic culture, runs like a red thread through the text of the proposed textbook.