Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English

English is the lingua franca used in business communication. Therefore the number of non-native speakers of English already outnumbers native speakers provided that worldwide enterprises use English for international communication. The Internet has also increased the use of English as an internation...

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Autores: Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa|||0000-0002-3040-5362, Muñiz Calderón, Rut
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
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Idioma:inglés
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e-mails
English as a second language
English as a foreign language
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spelling Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of EnglishCarrió-Pastor, María Luisa|||0000-0002-3040-5362Muñiz Calderón, RutLexical variationse-mailsEnglish as a second languageEnglish as a foreign languageFILOLOGIA INGLESAEnglish is the lingua franca used in business communication. Therefore the number of non-native speakers of English already outnumbers native speakers provided that worldwide enterprises use English for international communication. The Internet has also increased the use of English as an international language, in this way; it is used by speakers with different linguistic backgrounds. This variety of authors produces differences or variations in language use. In this paper we contrast business e-mails written by Spanish agents who work in an exporting company in India and China. Our main aim is to analyze the possible variations due to the mother tongue and the socio-cultural context and to classify lexical variation in business English used as a global working language by non-native speakers. We intended to determine the causes of variation and their influence on discourse. We analyzed and contrasted sixty e-mails written by two groups of nonnative English speakers. Group A was composed of native speakers from Pakistan and Group B was composed of native speakers from China. The corpus analysis was carried out manually. We classified the occurrences in categories depending on the cause of the variation. After the analysis, we observed that the lexical variations found were caused by sociolinguistic and cultural influences.IKK & ISV, Copenhagen Business SchoolDepartamento de Lingüística AplicadaEscuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Geodésica, Cartográfica y TopográficaGrupo de Análisis de las Lenguas de Especialidad (GALE)Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20122012-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/78139reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reserva de todos los derechoshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/781392026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English
title Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English
spellingShingle Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English
Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa|||0000-0002-3040-5362
Lexical variations
e-mails
English as a second language
English as a foreign language
FILOLOGIA INGLESA
title_short Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English
title_full Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English
title_fullStr Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English
title_full_unstemmed Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English
title_sort Lexical variations in business e-mails written by non-native speakers of English
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa|||0000-0002-3040-5362
Muñiz Calderón, Rut
author Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa|||0000-0002-3040-5362
author_facet Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa|||0000-0002-3040-5362
Muñiz Calderón, Rut
author_role author
author2 Muñiz Calderón, Rut
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Geodésica, Cartográfica y Topográfica
Grupo de Análisis de las Lenguas de Especialidad (GALE)
Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Lexical variations
e-mails
English as a second language
English as a foreign language
FILOLOGIA INGLESA
topic Lexical variations
e-mails
English as a second language
English as a foreign language
FILOLOGIA INGLESA
description English is the lingua franca used in business communication. Therefore the number of non-native speakers of English already outnumbers native speakers provided that worldwide enterprises use English for international communication. The Internet has also increased the use of English as an international language, in this way; it is used by speakers with different linguistic backgrounds. This variety of authors produces differences or variations in language use. In this paper we contrast business e-mails written by Spanish agents who work in an exporting company in India and China. Our main aim is to analyze the possible variations due to the mother tongue and the socio-cultural context and to classify lexical variation in business English used as a global working language by non-native speakers. We intended to determine the causes of variation and their influence on discourse. We analyzed and contrasted sixty e-mails written by two groups of nonnative English speakers. Group A was composed of native speakers from Pakistan and Group B was composed of native speakers from China. The corpus analysis was carried out manually. We classified the occurrences in categories depending on the cause of the variation. After the analysis, we observed that the lexical variations found were caused by sociolinguistic and cultural influences.
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