The compositional and speech organization of regulation text as a regulatory document

The relevance of the study covered by this article is determined by the extension of the business communication scope, as well as the nessecity to upgrade the administrative activity of organizations which largely depends on the documentation quality. The documents are used in various communicative situations and reflect intercultural business relations, that is why the problem of studying the nature and functions of documents is urgent. Business communication involves interaction in different areas of activity, and a document is one of the main tools of regulating this process. The author studies a regulation, the document which ensures the systematization and adjustment of management process, reflects certain production processes and the order of their execution. Taking into account the complex of criteria (functioning level of document, specificity of business communication subjects, diversity of regulated processes, compositional and content, and speech organization of text), the author suggests to distinguish three types of regulations. The regulations of first type systemize the business activity at government level or corresponding administration. The regulations of second type are used to regulate external relations - with counter-agents, partners - during undetermined (long-term) or determined (having starting and ending date) validity period. The regulations of third type serve to regulate domestic relations within an organization and are mostly intended for staff. From the composition viewpoint, the regulations of all types represent the text consisting of several paginated sections; at this, the level of regulation functioning, the specificity of business communication subjects define the character of information - degree of its generality/detalization. The speech organization of studied documents is similar as it is characterized by use of lexis with process semantics and official clichés. The regulations differ in terminology which reflects the described processes and in documents' names.