SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH BUSINESS LETTERS

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作者：

Hardosova, Maria ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Matej Bel Univ, Fac Humanities, Dept English & Amer Studies, Banska Bystrica 97401, Slovakia

来源：

THEORIES IN PRACTICE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES | 2010年

关键词：

business correspondence; syntactic means; compound and complex sentences; embedded clauses; non-finite clauses; condensation;

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中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

This paper gives a brief syntactic analysis of English business letters. The aim is to prove that the style of official documents differs from other styles not only in lexical but also in syntactic means. As can be seen, long, complex and compound-complex sentences highly prevail over simple ones. A high occurrence of non-finite clauses, as well as other syntactic devices commonly used in official documents, also contribute to the different nature of business writing. The research reveals that business letters use more non-finite structures than can be encountered in other discourse types. Infinitive clauses, -ing clauses and -ed clauses serve as other means of text condensation. Infinitive clauses appear mainly in the role of adverbial clauses of purpose and nominal clauses: -ed participle clauses instead of finite relative clauses and -ing participle clauses in the role of nominal clauses and finite relative clauses.

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页码：77 / 82

页数：6