The Language of Historical Business Discourse in English
A Nineteenth-Century Perspective
Published on 3. July 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
148 pages
978-620-2-67453-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the language of historical business correspondence in English by applying an innovative combination of two methodological approaches: a corpus-based study of a collection of nineteenth-century business letters, complemented by a qualitative, context-sensitive interpretation of the results. It is the first study to trace the evolution of the sub-genre of the specialised business epistolary guide in English and to investigate a set of distinctive linguistic features in specialised historical business discourse in English by identifying and quantifying typical phraseological patterns.
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Polina Shvanyukova is Postdoctoral Researcher in English Language and Translation and Adjunct Lecturer in English Language in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bergamo, Italy.