The book presents a vision of general problems of stylistics and offers a stylistic classification of the English vocabulary. Along with a description of phonetic, lexical and lexical-phraseological expressive means, it reviews different syntactical expressive means and problems concerning the composition of spans of utterance larger than the sentence. A chapter is dedicated to give a classification of functional styles of the English language. A set of illustrative texts is presented. .The book is recommended to students of foreign languages and philology departments. .В учебнике излагаются общие проблемы английской стилистики, дается стилистическая классификация словарного состава английск