Features of Business Texts
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Business texts are a subcategory of ______ texts and therefore share common features with these texts. The term technical includes scientific disciplines such as medicine, physics, and so on, applied technology, and less obviously “scientific” subjects such as ______.

technical

Common business texts include business and market reports, financial ______, business letters, production, ______, etc.

statements

Business texts have a number of key features which set them apart from other texts having no technical ______. The features are mainly confined to lexical units and syntactic structures.

nature

Lexical features Sharing common features with ______ language, business language is different from ordinary language used in general textbooks. Technical language is specialized, that it is economic in terms of linguistic means, and that it defines ______ accurately.

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The components which affect the ______ of business texts are writer, text, and readers. Informative language The language used in business texts is an informative language featuring impersonal ______.

<p>readability</p> Signup and view all the answers

This type of informative language which features the use of ______ sentences can be seen in various types of business documents.

<p>declarative</p> Signup and view all the answers

Business language uses metaphors to explain a certain idea. An example is low hanging fruit (easy and quick wins), lots of moving parts (a project or a program with numerous components), and ______ (a lot of work with a small return)

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Business texts feature domain-specific terms which set them apart from other technical texts. Business terms belong to a number of business domains such as ______, finance, and marketing

<p>management</p> Signup and view all the answers

In addition to the domain-specific terms, business texts can include words which have different meanings when used in a general sense. Depression in everyday language refers to feelings. When used in a business domain, the word refers to a severe recession in an economy or ______

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Use of metaphors is one feature of literary texts which can be noticed in business language to explain a certain idea. Examples of business metaphors include low hanging fruit (easy and quick wins), lots of moving parts (a project or a program with numerous components), and boil the ocean (a lot of work with a small ______)

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