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The Style of Official Documents

The style of official documents is characterized by adherence to linguistic and structural norms. Long, complex sentences with various types of coordination and subordination are used, along with passive and participial constructions. The documents have a clear and logical subdivision of information into units, and a conventional order of presenting content. Terminology, proper names, titles, and an abstract and official vocabulary dominate the neutral tone.

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The Style of Official Documents

The style of official documents is characterized by adherence to linguistic and structural norms. Long, complex sentences with various types of coordination and subordination are used, along with passive and participial constructions. The documents have a clear and logical subdivision of information into units, and a conventional order of presenting content. Terminology, proper names, titles, and an abstract and official vocabulary dominate the neutral tone.

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The style of official documents

Morphological Syntactical Compositional


features features features

adherence to the norm long complex sentences with coded graphical layout
several types of coordination &
subordination
clear-cut subdivision of
Lexical features texts into units of information
passive & participial
constructions, connectives logical arrangement of units
stylistically neutral &
bookish vocabulary
objects, attributes & modifiers order-of-priority organisation of
content & information
terminology
detached constructions &
parenthesis
proper names & titles conventional composition of
treaties, agreements, protocols

abstraction of persons participle I & participle II


as openers
stereotyped, official phraseology
officialese vocabulary
several pronouncements accurate use of punctuation
conventional & archaic combine into one sentence
forms & words
unemotional & impersonal
standard normative
foreign words, especially style of narration
syntax (simplified)
Latin & French

abbreviations, contractions,
conventional symbols

words in their primary


denotative meaning

NO tropes, NO evaluative &


emotive colouring of vocabulary

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