Officially, business style is the language of business documentation. We all know what sea of business papers exists today. This diversity determines the moment that genres of officially business style of speech are practically impossible to count. But it is still possible to reveal their general laws, and we will try to do this in this article.
The main features of a formal business style are as follows. It is enshrined as a language for servicing the social and legal sphere and is used in lawmaking, the economic sphere, administration of administrative affairs, and in international diplomatic activities. In short, it is the language of documents that govern the actions of people and have great legal significance. Therefore, their content should have a single interpretation and not mislead people.
It is very difficult to list all genres of officially business style, as we said earlier, but the main ones can be called. These include: contract, application, order, resolution, power of attorney, announcement, certificate, legislative acts, documents of various sizes and meanings, etc. All of them are characterized by an emphasized logical presentation, lack of signs of emotionality, formality and abound in standardized phrases and language cliches compiled using Old Slavonic phrases and archaic vocabulary. All genres of officially business style of speech, except for the information part, have a certain form of filling out business paper. This form is called props and is provided by GOST. That is, none of the documents of national importance can be executed in a free order. each of them has a standard view, to which it is strictly fixed.
Details that have genres of formal business style are fixed strictly in a certain part of a sheet of paper or on a ready-made form. The name of the document, the date of its creation, registration number (incoming or outgoing), as well as all the necessary information about the person who made this document has a permanent location. And it looks something like this: the name, date and number are at the top, and personal information is at the bottom of the document, and after the signature, which is responsible for the text.
Today, formal business style genres are thought out to the maximum extent possible and there are special sets of details that are printed on ready-made standard forms, which are recommended for use in preparing this or that business paper. These include: The State Emblem of the Russian Federation, the emblem of the organization, the image of various government awards, digital codes of institutions, the names of ministries and enterprises, as well as structural units. Mandatory details include postal details: postal code, telegraph address, telephone numbers, teletypes, faxes and bank accounts. Some genres of formal business style are marked with an access restriction signature stamp.
The main features of the official business style can be most clearly demonstrated on one of the most popular types of business papers - the contract. It fixes the legal relations arising between legal entities and individuals and is filled in when concluding any transactions. The terms of the contract are divided into paragraphs and subclauses, which specify the nature, conditions, terms of the transaction, as well as the rights and obligations of the parties. There should be at least seven such modules in each contract drawn up correctly. These are: representation of the parties involved in the transaction, determination of the subject of the contract, the obligation of the parties, their responsibility, the conditions under which settlement and the terms of the contract will be made, as well as postal, legal and payment details.
Any other business paper is also filled in according to the order strictly adopted by state bodies.