Деловые письма на английском языке, их содержание и стиль. Business letters in English: content and style.

INTRODUCTION

Correspondence is a key aspect of the world of commerce and business. It reflects on the competence and professionalism of the person who has written it and the company he or she works for. Neat, clear correspondence is an important part of running an efficient business, and can promote good relations. Unclear or confusing correspondence can cause many problems, and can lead to misunderstanding, delays, lost business, and poor relations between individuals, departments, and companies.
The present stage of development of inte
ational contacts in business area is related to intensive extension of trade relations. Under these conditions analysis on texts of business letters has taken on enormous significance which determines relevance of the issue under consideration. Business correspondence and its specifics are described in papers on stylistics of I. Halperin, I. A
old, T. Znamenskaya etc. Despite the existing high level of scientific knowledge in this field the issue remains an actual problem for linguistic comprehension of business letters by reason of their diversity, as well as by reason of their specific nature.
The theme of our study is “Business letters in English: content and style”. The actuality of this research is determined first of all by great importance of business correspondence as a type of communication used by many people in their daily life. Furthermore, commercial activities change and develop and so does commercial correspondence, therefore studying operating types and forms of business letters remains actual.
It should also be taken into account that we live in a new era of the information society, and this fact makes us to examine activities in the field of commercial practice in a new way. Thus, the widespread use of Inte
et technologies has led to a substantial reduction in use of traditional printed letters especially in business correspondence. Nowadays traditional forms of letters have been replaced with emails....

1.1. Business correspondence as a part of the style of official documents, its functions, sphere of circulation and types.

The style of official documents is a functional style of the English language, which is used in the area of public relations. The language of official documents is instrument in communication of states, of a state and a certain individual or society in general, an instrument in communication of enterprises, institutions, organizations, as well as an official means of communication of people in production, trade and service sectors.
The style of official documents belongs to written style of English. It is implemented in texts of laws, orders, decrees, contracts, certificates, licenses, powers of atto
ey, in business correspondence of different business establishments.
I. Halperin [17, p.431] identifies several substyles of style of official documents:
- substyle of diplomacy (used in inte
ational relations);
- subsyle of business correspondence (used in the field of trade and economy);
- the substyle of legal documents (language of codes, judicial documents, gove
ment regulations, parliamentary decisions etc);
- substyle of military documents (language of orders, manuals, reports etc.).
The main purpose of business communication is to define the conditions that ensure the normal cooperation of two parties, that is, to reach an agreement on specific matters between two parties. Commercial relations find a particular expression in the form of official documents: letters, notes, contracts, statute etc. Even those documents that contain protest against the violation of certain conditions are related to the main purpose of business communication, and that is an agreement between two or more individuals or legal entities.

CONCLUSION

The research carried out makes it possible to come to the following conclusion.
1. Nowadays knowledge of the English, including skills of writing business letters, is vitally important for successful functioning of any commercial establishment. Business letters are used in different areas of commercial practice and have a number of features. Variety of business letters types is connected with situations arising in commercial practice of business establishments. It is hardly possible to cover all situations that can find their implementation in a business letter, so there isn’t a common classification of business letters types.
2. It is to be noted, that form and content of business letters are affected by rules of style of official documents as well as by mode
tendencies of transferring and receiving information. Nowadays the speed of transferring and receiving information has increased and that fact has some consequences in area of business correspondence.
3. It is known that a business letter is characterized by several compositional rules, that means a traditional printed letter must include some obligatory elements, such as - inside address, salutation and complimentary close, date, subject signature etc. The present study has elicited the fact, that only the body of the letter is an obligatory element of mode
correspondence. The most elements are variable. The reason for neglect of many structural elements of a business letter may saving of time for writing (and reading) a text.
4. These conditions also affect grammatical features of business letters. Our study shows almost equal rates in using complex and simple sentences in texts of business letters. On the one hand, the use of a complex sentence enables the author to express several ideas in a concise way. On the other hand, simple sentences are more apprehensible, as information is given in smaller portions.
5. The style of business letters is characterized by strict adherence to...