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The Style Of Official DocumentsThe official document functional style can be divided into four varieties: a) the language style of diplomatic documents; b) the language style of business documents; c) the language style of legal documents; d) the language style of military documents. The style of official documents aims at establishing, developing and controlling business relations between individuals and organizations. The main aim of this type of communication is to state the conditions binding two parties in an undertaking. These parties may be: this state and a citizen, or citizen and citizen; a society and its members (statute or ordinance); two or more enterprises or bodies (business correspondence or contracts); two or more governments (pacts, treaties); a person in authority and a subordinate (order, regulations, instructions, authoritative directives); a board or presidium and an assembly or general meeting (procedures acts, minutes). The aim of communication in this style of language is to reach agreement between two contracting parties. Even protest against violations of statutes, contracts, regulations, can also be regarded as a form by which normal cooperation is sought on the basis of previously attained concordance.
Distinctions in American and English Terms and Terminological word-combinations. Amer. Eng. Administration government in power Around (ten) about Blue chip first-class Investments investments Call loan short-term loan Checking account current account Claim letter letter of complaint Collect on delivery cash on delivery Common stock ordinary share Corporation law company law Express man carrier To fix a meeting to arrange a meeting Freight not prepaid carriage forward Freight prepaid carriage paid Freight train goods train Government bonds government securities In god shape in good conditions Investment bank merchant bank Law business practice (law) Local taxes rates To operate a business to run a business Operating costs running expenses Ordinance by-law To pass up an offer to decline an offer President chairman Right away immediately Shipment consignment Stock holder shareholder Stub counterfoil Tag label Tender offer Way back some time ago
Besides the special nomenclature characteristic of each variety of the style, there is a feature common to all these varieties the use of abbreviations, conventional symbols and contractions, for example: Ltd Limited, B/E bill of exchange, Gvt government, Appx appendix, $ - dollar, ₤ - pound Words with emotive meaning are not to be found in the style of official documents. Almost every official document has its own compositional design.
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