Abstract

The status of English in the global arena has become an irreplaceable and unparalleled one. The language has become apparent and prominent in the key aspects of trade and commerce for the last two decades or more. Though the first spread of the language was due to colonial expansion, it has attained a level of being considered a standard and common one for all official communications by and large particularly in the countries where a vast number of regional and native languages are spoken. English, indeed, is not the most widely spoken language on the earth if it is taken in terms of number of native speakers. It has become a prominent language as it is spoken by people around the world – 350 million of 6 billion people. In case of International business, it is the only language that has occupied a great space revealing the importance of the language. This paper brings to light how English as a language is used for business communication in the corporate sectors. The business at global level is conducted across borders of countries with English as a principal language. The use of language provides many benefits such as helping the concern grow and succeed, invigorating trust among colleagues and clients, strengthening the relationship with everyone in and out the concern, escalating the skill set of individuals along with commanding lucrative packages and embellishing the international relationship by means of cultural understanding.

Highlights

  • The world of trade and commerce has been grown up gigantically with the input of English as the most widely used language

  • The language, crossing international boundaries, transcends language barriers to be at the top of the corporate world today

  • Development of modern business and corporate reveal that the Business English (BE) is being used widely to enable those who involve in business to communicate effectively

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Introduction

The world of trade and commerce has been grown up gigantically with the input of English as the most widely used language. Everyone is aware that the spoken and written English has become the means of business communication with in acountry and amongthe countries in the world. The organization of trade and commerce started to have a different turn where the business deals were not confined to a single region or area but starts to spread across the globe This widespread commercialization raised the need for a single language through which everyone has to communicate. Business English, an umbrella term, aims to have the communication skills in a universal environment of business The areas such as manufacturing, marketing, production, property, the stock exchange, (international) trade, transport, accounting, commerce, e-commerce, economics, finance, HR, insurance, IT, law, etc., are covered under Business English. Focus should be paid on the special vocabulary for making or receiving phone calls, conducting negotiations and meetings, etc

The importance of business english communication
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Use of business english in cross and intercultural communication
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