A Stylistic Analysis Of English Business Letters

With the development of science and economy, and China's entrance into WTO, China's foreign trade and the constant increase of other economic activities, technical cooperation and cultural exchange to foreign countries draw much attention to themselves. Not only many Chinese go abroad to do business, but also many foreigners come to China to sightsee and invest capital in enterprises. The opportunity we make direct or indirect contact with foreigners becomes more and more.And in the course of association with the foreigners, as a vehicle of international business transaction, business English letter is widely used in every field of our daily life and routine duties, especially in the profession of pubic relations, information, to express ideas, to exchange feelings and to deal with social business. Therefore, it is necessary for the people who engaged in foreign affairs to have a good command of the language features and writing techniques about business English letters.Business English letters does not call for flowery language because it isn't literary works, but it is required to express the writer's own views accurately in a plain language that is very clear and is readily understood, and catch the reader's attention and persuade them into believing what you said.This thesis aims at analyzing the business English writing by using the theories of stylistics. First, it starts from the description of stylistics and its origin, including some branches of stylistics; second, it goes on analyzing the linguistic features of all kinds of business letters. In the procedure of analyzing, it gives some really examples so as to draw a clear picture of the whole theory to the readers. As to the analysis of business letters, it can be divided into four levels: lexical, syntactical and discourse. At last, it will find the rhetoric features in business letters. The four main guides will go through all the paper.This paper tries to reveal many linguistic features of different business letters and provide some basis for the drafting and understanding of business letters, which, I hope will do well to the business transaction among our country and foreign countries.