Types of descriptive texts(visual description, description-characteristic, contaminated description)

This paper contains a study of the integral and differential properties of varieties of descriptive text: a visual description and a description-characteristic. In certain cases, when the signs of the visual description and description-characteristic are contaminated, a transition unit arises - a contaminated description that combines the properties of the visual description and description-characteristic. The subject of the analysis is the principles of differentiation of descriptive texts, among which can be called 1) the function of the deputy speaker,2) signs of observability / non-observability of signs, 3) principle of temporality / constancy of the properties of the described subject, 4) lexical-semantic (LSG) groups of substantives, verbs etc. The empirical base of the work is the descriptive texts of different stylistic belonging, extracted from the texts of fiction (classical and modern works), official business documents, scientific papers, journalism and colloquial speech.