Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

 
Questions for discussion: 
1. What are the distinctive features of scientific prose style? Speak about all of cases. 
2. What is the fate of scientific terms when they undergo determination? 
3. What impersonal passive constructions are used in scientific prose? 
4. Do scientific prose include emotiveness? 
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6. The Style of Official
Documents
1) Language of business letters; 
2) Language of legal documents; 
3) Language of diplomacy; 
4) Language of military documents;
The aims of this style are: 1. to reach agreement between two contracting 
parties; 2. to state the conditions binding two parties in an understanding[13].
Each of substyles of official documents makes use of special terms. Legal 
documents: military documents, diplomatic documents. The documents use set 
expressions inherited from early Victorian period. This vocabulary is conservative. 
Legal documents contain a large proportion of formal and archaic words used in their 
dictionary meaning. In diplomatic and legal documents many words have Latin and 
French origin. There are a lot of abbreviations and conventional symbols. 
The most noticeable feature of grammar is the compositional pattern. Every 
document has its own stereotyped form. The form itself is informative and tells you 
with what kind of letter we deal with. 
Business letters contain: heading, addressing, salutation, the opening, the body, 
the closing, complimentary clause, the signature. Syntactical features of business 
letters are - the predominance of extended simple and complex sentences, wide use of 
participial constructions, homogeneous members. 
Morphological peculiarities are passive constructions, they make the letters 
impersonal. There is a tendency to avoid pronoun reference. Its typical feature is to 
frame equally important factors and to divide them by members in order to avoid 
ambiguity of the wrong interpretation.