Functional-semantic types of speech in the texts of modern documents

The problem of speech types functioning in modern business texts is considered in the article. The authors believe that the issues of prescribing certain behavior rules of the subjects of communication and ascertaining the facts, circumstances, situations dominate in the sphere of business communication. Reflecting of regulation and ascertaining the facts in the text, circumstances, situations acquire the feature of intention for the compiler of the document. This point determines the appearance in business speech specific functional and semantic types of speech-prescriptions and statements. Along with this, the traditional for Russian speech description, narration and reasoning also find implementation in the official business sphere, especially in the documents of the last decade. However, they undergo significant changes in comparison with the options of use in artistic or journalistic speech.These features of functional and semantic types of speech are manifested in the specific use of multilevel language units.