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The Official Documents Functional Style.

Official style, or the style of official documents, is the most conserva�tive one. It preserves cast-iron forms of structuring and uses syntacti�cal constructions and words long known as archaic and not observed anywhere else. Addressing documents and official letters, signing them, expressing the reasons and considerations leading to the subject of the document (letter) - all this is strictly regu�lated both lexically and syntactically. All emotiveness and subjective modality are completely banned out of this style.

- the main aim is to state the conditions binding two parties in an undertaking (the state and the citi�zen, 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. - special system of clichés, terms and set expressions; conventionality of expression; - each of subdivisions of this style has its own peculiar terms, phrases and expressions; 

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

- 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. - absence of any emotiveness:

Sub styles: - the language of business documents, - the language of legal documents, - that of di�plomacy, - that of military documents.