@ARTICLE{Богдан_Світлана_The_2021, author={Богдан, Світлана and Тарасюк, Тетяна}, volume={vol. LXX}, number={No 1}, pages={167-186}, journal={Slavia Orientalis}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN}, abstract={The article highlights the actualization specificity of the notion of epistle in lexicographical and academic sources. The study reveals the semantic structure peculiar features of this notion. The focus of attention consists of two main issues: the history of the origin of the genre in the Ukrainian tradition and the functional‑style differentiation of the epistle as a literary genre. The literary studies approach to determining the genre status of an epistle is limited to its interpretation as a genre of artistic and journalistic styles. An analysis of the texts under study reveals the epistle’s dominant typological features and the peculiarities of their explication within official and artistic styles. There is convincing evidence that religious epistles have one of the most ancient manifestations in the functional‑stylistic system of the Ukrainian language and that they arose both within the specific Ukrainian linguistic context and in the form of the translated texts of the Holy Scripture. The findings of the study give reasons to determine the epistle as a historically established speech genre, which has a functional‑style specificity and stereotypical compositional content organization. The typology of the epistle genre features is most clearly represented at the level of the textual and structural‑stylistic organization.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={The Genre of Epistle in the Functional Stylistic System of the Ukrainian Language}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/119941/PDF/2021-01-SOR-10-Bozdan.pdf}, doi={10.24425/slo.2021.137007}, keywords={epistles, religious epistle, text, functional style system, religious style}, }