FUNCTIONING OF PROFESSIONAL VOCABULARY IN NEW BUSINESS DISCOURSE
FUNCTIONING OF PROFESSIONAL VOCABULARY IN NEW BUSINESS DISCOURSE

Author(s): Julia Ageeva
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: job interview; discourse markers; terms; professional vocabulary; barbarisms;
Summary/Abstract: The paper provides an overview of linguistic features of business discourse (sourcing and employment), in which a communicative center is presented as an interview of a recruiter with a job candidate. Terms, professional vocabulary and barbarisms from various institutional spheres serve as discourse markers of speech strategies of the recruiter (interviewer) and the job candidate (interviewee), which is determined by extralinguistic features and interprofessional nature of the discourse. Recruiters use the terms primarily to assess professional competence of job candidates while job candidates demonstrate a command of professional vocabulary for self-presentation with hidden self-promotion. The paper presents examples of four job interviews with job candidates from different career fields; the ratio of the number of terms is given. A distinguishing characteristics of the discourse under study is the active use of such a group of special vocabulary as professional terms including barbarisms mainly borrowed from other languages (predominantly, from English) and not yet fully assimilated in the Russian language. It is noted that the boundaries between terms and professional vocabulary, professional vocabulary and barbarisms are relatively flexible. The study reveals the reasons why communicants frequently gain advantage of such vocabulary; the fundamental role of extralinguistic factors is displayed.

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