Abstract
This paper is devoted to basic functional-linguistic analysis of modern English professional and business discourse. The aim of this paper is to look at the phenomenon of modern English professional discourse from a functional-linguistic perspective to discuss key elements of verbal interaction that define rhetorical uniqueness of this type of communication and combine traditions, standards and conventional nature with enough freedom for speakers to express themselves and be creative in composing texts of their own. The author sums up different approaches to the definition of professional communication, singles out and describes major functional features of this type of verbal interaction: goal-setting, functional loading of professional communication, typical participants, chronotopos, forms of verbal behaviour, role and status relations, pragmatic conventions and standardization, etiquette, functional differences between official and semi-official professional discourse, peculiarities of written communication. All the above mentioned functional features of modern English professional discourse impose severe limitations on the speech arsenal available to people. Basic functionallinguistic analysis of discursive fragments reveals what aspects should be further elaborated on in terms of improving the process of strategic planning of speech, selecting proper linguistic means to cause appropriate pragmatic impact on listeners/ readers, work out ways to increase efficiency of rhetoric.
Highlights
Complex integrative processes of modern society have become the major reason for dramatic transformational changes in the world of finance and big business
Modern linguistics has an extensive range of works on many problems connected with business and professional communication, e.g. strategies and principles of verbal behaviour in various job-related situations, descriptions of differences between national mentalities and their relevance to cross-cultural business cooperation, practical tips and guidelines for businessmen about important meetings, negotiations on key issues, presentations, verbal behaviour during job interviews as well as theory of business correspondence and its genres, compilation of orders, directives, instructions, regulations, CVs, advertisements, questionnaires, etc [BargielaChiappini, 2009; Bargiela-Chiappini et al, 2007; Gillaerts & Gotti, 2005; Garzone & Ilie, 2007; Malyuga & Orlova, 2018; Malyuga & Ponomarenko, 2012; Malyuga & Ponomarenko, 2015]
The goal of this article is to look at the phenomenon of modern English professional discourse from a functional-linguistic perspective to single out key elements of verbal interaction that define rhetorical uniqueness of this type of communication and combine
Summary
Complex integrative processes of modern society have become the major reason for dramatic transformational changes in the world of finance and big business. That’s why linguists are quite persistent in their research to increase effectiveness of business rhetoric, find ways to enhance speech manipulation and study specific functional properties of Business English which is universally embraced as a lingua franca for politics, diplomacy, economy and culture. The goal of this article is to look at the phenomenon of modern English professional discourse from a functional-linguistic perspective to single out key elements of verbal interaction that define rhetorical uniqueness of this type of communication and combine
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