SPECIFICITY OF MODALITY TYPES IN "BUSINESS LETTER" GENRE IN CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECT (BY THE MATERIAL OF THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BUSINESS COMMUNICATION)
Al-Bayati Yassien Shareef Saed
Volgograd State University
Submitted: 26.04.2019
Abstract. Relevance of the work is conditioned by interest in the problems of business communication genres functioning in the English language. On the basis of the material of the representative specialized corpus of business letters collected from both public and private companies of the United Arab Emirates, the author aims to describe the language specificity of the data samples of written business communication and to reveal statistically significant differences in the use of modal verbs between authentic texts and the studied corpus. In the article, differences in the frequency of using modal verbs are analysed, and the dominant types of modality are identified.
Key words and phrases: деловое письмо, модальность, модальный глагол, типы модальности, деловой дискурс, корпусная лингвистика, частотность употребления, business letter, modality, modal verb, types of modality, business discourse, corpus linguistics, frequency of use
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