Official style

(the) style of official documents

официально-деловой стиль

represented in all kinds of official documents and papers (V.A.K.)

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The main aim is to state the conditions binding two parties in an undertaking (the state and the citizen, citizen and citizen, the society and its members, two or more enterprises or bodies, a person and subordinates)

- the aim is to reach agreement between two contracting parties.

- <features of official style>

[u]Substyles:[/u] the language of business documents, the language of legal documents, the language of diplomacy, the language of military documents

- each of subdivisions of this style has its own peculiar terms, phrases and expressions;

Syn.: official style, the style of official documents, officialese

Source: <I.R.G.>

See: <functional style>, <stylistic device>

Officialese

канцелярский слог

Source: <I.R.G.>

See: <official style>

Features of official style

- conventionality of expression;

e.g. preamble, central clauses, opening addresses, closing sentences, signatures, seals, dates, names of addres See s

- special system of clichés, set expressions \[and highly literary formal words\];

e.g. I beg to inform you, on behalf of, Dear Sir, The High Contracting Parties hereby agree as follows, hereby, hereto, herein, hereinafter (referred to as), the undersigned, excepted otherwise herein provided, whatsoever, to authorise, bona fide

- terms;

e.g. immovable property, designated depository, deputy judge, depositions de bene esse, territorial waters

- the encoded character of language; symbols: special terminological nomenclature, abbreviations, conventional symbols and contractions;

e.g. MP, IMF, UN, RU, NGO, PLC, LLC, Inc, Gvt, Dept, EXW, $, EUR, VAT, e.o.h.p.

- use of words in their logical <dictionary meaning>. There is no room for words with <contextual meaning> or for any kind of simultaneous realisation of two meanings;

- word with <emotive meaning> are also not to be found, except those which are used in business letters as conventional phrases of greeting or close (as Dear Sir);

- absence of any emotiveness: (commercial correspondence) emotional words and phrases;

- compositional patterns, compositional design; infinitive object clauses;

- a general syntactical mode of combining several pronouncement into one sentence, the whole document in one sentence \[according to\] its formal syntactical structure.

Source: <I.R.G.> (the examples excluding)

See: <official style >

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