METHODS OF RESEARCHING THE CHARTER AS A DOCUMENT OF OFFICIAL BUSINESS STYLE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of methods of analysis of the international document "charter" as a genre of official business style. This article examines the concept of official business style and defines its features. The official business style is a functional language style that is used for communication in state, political, economic and public life. Also, this style normalizes the design of business papers. This style has certain features, such as a concise presentation of information, it is not characterized by the use of various linguistic means in a figurative sense, usually this style is characterized by a standard arrangement of material and the obligation to observe the presentation form. Also, in this style, terms specific to certain branches of institutional relations are widely used. In this article we characterize the "charter" as an international document. On the basis of a critical review of various types of analysis, general methods and linguistic methods of analysis were selected, productive for determining the specific characteristics of the international document "charter". As for the general methods, the methods of analysis, synthesis and generalization were singled out (for review of scientific works in the field of official business style of Ukrainian and foreign researchers was carried out, the characteristics inherent in the official business style were determined, etc.) and the continuous sampling method (texts for the corpus were selected). From the linguistic methods, the comparative-historical method (for the study of the "charter" document in diachrony), the structural and descriptive methods (for the study of the structural-semantic and lexical-grammatical features of the charter), and the functional method and the method of pragmatic analysis (for the identification of communicative-pragmatic goals of the author). It was also stated that the choice of research methods depends on its purpose. A comprehensive analysis is suitable for our study.