ABSTRACT

As far as I am concerned, economic globalization has a significant influence on many countries, each has reaped plentiful fruits of it. Therefore, it is a tendency towards enrolling in international trade, more and more countries taking part in international trade. Since China join in WTO, China has extended its scale of building business relationship with other countries all over the world. So do others. While as the basic tool of communication, the quality of business correspondence determines the success of business transactions. Those, which are good examples of business English correspondence, will give company’s cooperative partner a good impression, epitomizing its good manner; on the contrary, those terribly organized correspondences will misrepresent the company’s economic power, which in the end will affect their relationship. Thus, it’s extremely important to know more about business English correspondence, aiming to achieve good performance in international trade. My thesis, referring to the influence of Business English correspondence with international trade, and demonstrating these influences by analyzing the lexical features of Business English correspondence, is then putted forward.

Key words: English business correspondence  lexical features  functions

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

中文摘要

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION-1

1.1 THE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY-1

1.2 THE PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PAPER-1

1.3 THE LAYOUT OF THE STUDY-3

CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW-5

2.1 AN OVERVIEW ON THE EFFECTS OF BUSINESS ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE.-5

2.1.1 Overseas research status-5

2.1.2 Domestic research status-6

2.2 REVIEW OF STUDIES ON LEXICAL FEATURES-8

2.2.1 Overseas research status-8

2.2.2 Domestic research status-8

CHAPTER THREE THE EFFECTS OF LEXICAL FEATURES OF BUSINESS ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE-10

3.1 THE EFFECTS OF LEXICAL FEATURES OF BUSINESS ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE ON OPENING CONNECTIONS-10

3.2 THE EFFECTS OF LEXICAL FEATURES OF BUSINESS ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE ON NEGOTIATIONS-11

3.3 THE EFFECTS OF LEXICAL FEATURES OF BUSINESS ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE ON FULFILLING ORDERS-13

CHAPTER FOUR CONCLUSION-15

BIBLIOGRAPHY-16