Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English

作者: Rut Muñiz Calderón , Maria Luisa Carrió-Pastor

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摘要: English is the lingua franca used in business communication. Therefore number of non-native speakers already outnumbers native provided that worldwide enterprises use for international The Internet has also increased as an language, this way; it by with different linguistic backgrounds. This variety authors produces differences or variations language use. In paper we contrast e-mails written Spanish agents who work exporting company India and China. Our main aim to analyze possible due mother tongue socio-cultural context classify lexical variation a global working speakers. We intended determine causes their influence on discourse. analyzed contrasted sixty two groups Group A was composed from Pakistan B corpus analysis carried out manually. classified occurrences categories depending cause variation. After analysis, observed found were caused sociolinguistic cultural influences.

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