Comparative Study Of Chinese And English Business Letter Writing

Business letters are usually business organization, between commercial organization and its customers and external relations between the use of formal written style, used to contact business, business negotiation, communication business, etc, due to the cultural background and the features of language differences, English business letters and Chinese business letters writing mode (style) there are certain differences. This paper, from the perspective of stylistics, the use of stylistic analysis method to study in Chinese and English business letters is different, the lexical features and syntactic characteristics, textual features carry on the comparison, the Sino-British business letters though form is roughly same, but in different pragmatic environment but have different function, therefore also has different stylistic features. This paper first analyzes the business letters in English and Chinese of their respective research situation, Chinese and English business letters writing related theory research, and then from the English business letters vocabulary characteristics, syntactic characteristics, discourse structure, conversational implicature, the principle of courtesy, speech act, says seven aspects such as predicate carries on the contrast analysis, and finally from the analysis of the contrast that in both Chinese and English business letters writing about some Suggestions.