Function of impact in the official functional style of the English language

The focus of this study is on the elements of the function of impact in texts belonging to the official functional style, considering how these elements convey a certain type of content. These texts are categorized into three types based on their conceptual and linguistic parameters: prescriptive official texts, descriptive official texts, and evaluative official texts. The relevance of the study is determined by the social and professional significance of the official functional style. The methodological framework employs a comprehensive functional-stylistic analysis, which includes the examination of dictionary definitions, the semantic and metasemiotic capacities of lexical units, as well as their morphosyntactic and lexical-phraseological combinability. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that, for the first time, the functioning of expressive lexical units in official texts is investigated within the framework of a categorial functional-stylistic approach. The results demonstrate that in prescriptive official texts and descriptive official texts, elements of the function of impact do not realize their expressive properties, conveying specialized and non-emotional type of content. In prescriptive official texts, the main mechanism for restricting the expressivity of lexical units is their integration into multi-componential structures characterized by globality of nomination. In descriptive official texts, similar processes are observed under the influence of contextual relations and the conceptual orientation of texts. In evaluative official texts, elements of the function of impact partially realize their expressive potential as intensifiers. However, their integration into cliched phraseological units leads to the neutralization of their expressive properties.