Stylistic Features Of Foreign Trade Correspondence And Its Writing

FTC (foreign trade correspondence), briefly speaking, refers to the letters between importers and exporters in the process of international trade. FTC and its writing are becoming more and more important in today's world with the development of international trade. In most cases, FTC is the most commonly used means of communication between importers and exporters.In the process of its usage, FTC has formed its own style. At all the levels (from lexical to discourse level), it manifests distinctive and unique features, and these features make FTC so special, so businesslike and so different from other types of writing.This thesis focuses on the study of the language style of FTC and its writing. The study has been carried out on the basis of the theories of stylistics. In addition to introduction and conclusion, this thesis consists of three chapters.Chapter one is literature review. There are tow parts in this chapter. Part one is an introduction to FTC with the purpose of providing some basic and background knowledge since it is logical to get to have some relevant knowledge about FTC first before starting to analyze its stylistic features and its writing. The introduction covers: definition of FTC, the components of FTC and the transformation of FTC. Through this part we can have a better understanding about FTC and thus get ready for the following chapters. Part two is literature review. The dominant theories employed in this thesis, theories of stylistics, are discussed in this part to answer the following questions: first, what is style? This thesis introduces two viewpoints about this question: style as deviance and style as choice. The second question is what is stylistics? Answers fromdifferent stylisticians are introduced.Chapter two is about the stylistic features of foreign trade correspondence, In this chapter, the typical and common stylistic features of FTC are discussed within the framework of the theories of stylistics. To be more specific, answers to the following three questions are sought:1. What are the stylistic features of FTC?2. What effects can these features create?3. Why does FTC have these stylistic features?The analysis is carried out at lexical level, syntactic level and discourse level.Chapter three is concerned with the composition of FTC, the application of the theories discussed in chapter two. In this chapter, two questions are answered on the basis of the theories and conclusions of chapter one and chapter two.1. In what ways can FTC be composed to make it more appropriate and businesslike?2. In what ways can FTC be composed to make it function best?In this chapter, four writing principles are introduced: conciseness, clarity, concreteness and courtesy.