Linguostylistic features of quasi-spontaneous speech

This article is focused on the definition of quasi-spontaneous speech as one of the types of spontaneous speech. The study also determines its major linguostylistic characteristics as revealed by the research carried out at the department of philology at Lomonosov Moscow State University, notably by L.V. Zlatoustova. Quasi-spontaneous speech is defined as the one at least partially prepared or made on the subject the rhetor is well familiar with.