Prof Ashurova D. U., associate professor Normurodova N. Z. Course of lectures

 
The style of official documents. 
The style of official documents function is to reach an agreement between two 
contracting parties. The style of official documents is divided into the following 
substyles:
1. The language of business documents; 
2. The language of legal documents; 
3. The language of diplomacy; 
4. The language of military documents. 
Distinctive features of the style of official documents: 
1. Vocabulary is characterizes by the use of: 1) abbreviations: e.g. P.S., Ph.D.; 2) 
specific words and expressions (officialese): e.g. assist, proceed, purchase, sufficient, 
initiate organisational preliminaries (make preparations), your inquiry regarding…; 3) 
archaisms: e.g. hereto, hereon, hereunder, hereinbefore, thereof; 4) highly formal 
words: e.g. duly, deem, expiration; 4) predominant use of Romance loan-words and 
barbarisms: e.g. effect, assurance, conditions (French); basis, declaration, registration 
(Latin); 5) absence of emotiveness.
2. Grammatical characteristics: the predominant use of long complex sentences, 
subordinate devices, long complicated nominal groups. E.g. sales support 
representative, in accordance with your request etc.
3. Special layout by which attention is directed towards parts of a document 
which are crucial to meaning. The sections of documents begin with whereas, in 
witnesses, and, now.

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Study Questions: 
1. What is the functional style ? 
2. What functional styles do you know ? 
3. What are the substyles of the Belles-lettres style and their distinguishing features? 
4. What do you know about the scientific style? 
5.What are the peculiarities of the newspaper style? 
6.What are the main features of the publiсistic style?