Effective Means of Enhancing Comprehension in Business Documents
Effective Means of Enhancing Comprehension in Business Documents

Summary/Abstract: In recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the need for and the benefits of providing readily understandable business documents. Most corpus-based analyses have centred on the lexico-grammatical features of texts with less regard for functional and text-linguistic aspects. In this paper I will present some of the most effective techniques of lexical and syntactic text manipulation in order to enhance understanding of business letters and their politeness strategies. The results are related to the particular features of the type of discourse investigated and the specific socio-cultural factors involved.

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