personnel notice; appointment notice; transfer or dismissal order
Used in workplace and organizational contexts for an official notice or order about appointment, transfer, promotion, dismissal, and similar personnel changes. Common collocations include 辞令が出る and 辞令を受ける.
A transfer order was issued for me to move to the Osaka branch as of next month.
The new department manager received the appointment notice at the morning assembly.
wording; phraseology; choice of language
A formal or somewhat old-fashioned noun for the words or phrasing used in speech or social interaction. In modern Japanese it is especially familiar in compounds such as 社交辞令 or 外交辞令, meaning conventional or diplomatic wording rather than plain sincerity.
That is just a polite social phrase, so you should not take it literally.
She chose wording that would not hurt the other person.
A transfer notice to the branch office came out for next month.
I knew his compliment was nothing but polite formality.
The company issued an appointment notice to the newly assigned section chief.
He received a notice of transfer to the head office.
文言 is the everyday word for the wording of a document or statement, while 辞令 in this sense is more formal and mainly survives in fixed compounds.
任命 means the act of appointing someone to a post, whereas 辞令 is the document or notice through which that appointment is formally communicated.
Sino-Japanese compound written with 辞, associated with words or expression, and 令, associated with orders or commands. This helps explain both the official-notice sense and the wording/phraseology sense, but the exact historical development is not specified.