Published: 2025-08-07

Official style

EWA MALINOWSKA
Stylistyka
Section: STYLISTYKA POLSKA Polish stylistics
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/Stylistyka35.2025.5

Abstract

Three variants of the official style can be distinguished: the official-legal, the office-documentary, and the rhetorical style. Researchers have so far concentrated primarilyon legal texts, which aim to create model legal situations and regulate the behaviour of a given community’s members. Fewer studies have addressed the office-documentary variety, which includes numerousspeech genres,ranging from simple acts (such as summonses, invitations, and reminders) to more complex forms (such as business letters, minutes, and reports). In these cases, the primary focus has been on textual correctness. Genres within the rhetorical sub-variety, especially those involving negotiation and mediation, remain largely undescribed from a linguistic perspective. Another important issue requiring further study is how the model of institutional communication is changing with the rise of electronic documents (e-government). Researchers of official Polish agree that its basic features are directive, impersonal, precise, and standardized. These characteristics are closely interrelated, mutuallyconditioned, and interpenetrating, making it difficult to establish a clear hierarchy
among them. Their intensity is gradable, being highest in official-legal genres and lower in clerical texts.

Keywords:

style, linguistic stylistics, stylistic synthesis stylistics, official style, Polish language

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MALINOWSKA, E. (2025). Official style. Stylistyka, 35, 113–123. https://doi.org/10.25167/Stylistyka35.2025.5

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