国际贸易电子邮件的语料分析

作     者：校玉萍 

作者单位：浙江大学 

学位级别：硕士

导师姓名：庞继贤

授予年度：2006年

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学] 

主      题：international trade e-mails business writing genre style requests linguistic strategy 

摘      要：The rapid technological advance in media of interpersonal communication has started to affect the mode of business communication. E-mails have taken the place of mailed letters as well as faxes and become a dominant channel of communicating between business professionals. E-mail, as a new electronic medium of business communication has attracted increasing interest from scholars around the world. Some researchers overseas have identified some distinct linguistic features and rhetorical strategies in authentic business e-mails. However, in China e-mails, especially e-mails in commercial contexts have not received sufficient attention from scholars and the studies on authentic business e-mail data are rarely found. As to the genre analysis of authentic business written corpora, most work overseas focused on business letters, not e-mails and in China most of the written data collected for study are the examples extracted from the published textbooks. In China most export and import companies have adopted e-mail system as one of the major channels for their daily business communications. To a certain extent, e-mail communication has taken the place of face-to-face negotiation. Therefore, this new text type deserves special attention so that some constructive implications on the teaching of business written communication and suggestions on the materials development of BE writing textbooks in China could be made. This thesis firstly attempts to explore the discourse structure of international trade e-mails from a genre perspective to see whether this text type represents a new genre. Then, some distinctive language features of these e-mail messages are described from a stylistic point of view, on the basis of which a comparative study of styles will be conducted between authentic business emails and the specimen letters in those textbooks of foreign trade correspondence published in China. Lastly, the thesis makes a comparative analysis of differen