Official Documents

The style of official documents, like other styles, is not homogeneous and is represented by the following substyles or variants:

The language of business document;

The language of legal documents;

That of diplomacy;

That of military documents.

This style has a definite communicative aim and accordingly has its own system of interrelated language and stylistic means. The main aim of this type of communication is to state the condition binding two parties in an undertaking.

In other words the aim of communication in this style of language is to reach argument between two contracting parties. Even protest against violations of statutes, contracts, regulations, etc., can also be regarded as a form by which normal cooperation is sought on the basis of previously attained concordance.

As in the case with the above varieties this style also has some peculiarities:

The use of abbreviations, conventional symbols, contractions;

The use of words in their logical dictionary meaning;

Compositional patterns of the variants of this style.

Absence of any emotiveness.