Abstract
In this study, the corpora of British and Australian corporate communications were compared with the aim of specifying their sociolinguistic features in the context of five lexical and stylistic markers: professional jargon, as well as expressive, colloquial, uncodified and evaluative lexis. Lexical and stylistic characteristics of corporate communication from the point of view of a sociolinguistic approach were analyzed using transcripts of British and Australian communicative corporate interactions. The methods of continuous sampling, comparative, lexical-stylistic and sociolinguistic analysis were implemented to process an assembled corpus of 158 authentic transcripts. Based on the results of the analysis, quantitative data were compared, reflecting the volume of use of the indicated lexical-stylistic markers in the two samples. Quantitative data were subsequently analyzed to determine sociolinguistic characteristics that can be assessed as specific features of the communicative behavior of British and Australian superiors in dealing with subordinates. For each of the markers of lexical-stylistic differentiation under consideration, the two samples analyzed in the work showed differing results of a varied and at the same time exponential degree of discrepancy.
Highlights
Effective modern communication is aimed at establishing strong business contacts, facilitating the negotiation process, and helping to identify significant interaction patterns
The corpora of British and Australian corporate communications were compared with the aim of specifying their sociolinguistic features in the context of five lexical and stylistic markers: professional jargon, as well as expressive, colloquial, uncodified and evaluative lexis
Quantitative data were subsequently analyzed to determine sociolinguistic characteristics that can be assessed as specific features of the communicative behavior of British and Australian superiors in dealing with subordinates
Summary
Effective modern communication is aimed at establishing strong business contacts, facilitating the negotiation process, and helping to identify significant interaction patterns. The purpose of this study is to determine the lexical and stylistic characteristics of corporate communication produced by the representatives of British and Australian corporate communities using a sociolinguistic approach that allows to study the issues associated with the social nature of the language, its social functions, the role that language plays within a society, and the mechanisms governing the interrelation between social and linguistic factors. This approach can help identify significant differences that are characteristic of the British and Australian speech communities of interest to this paper. A speech community implies certain norms of language use through life relying on reciprocal communicative engagement (Salmon et al, 2019), and primarily refers to speaker-listener interaction patterns established between communication partners, when the application of language knowledge occurs as a matter of everyday communicative practices within the community (Xu, 2016)
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