Analysing formality and informality in the speech act of requesting in emails from the field of maritime English
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Analysing formality and informality in the speech act of requesting in emails from the field of maritime EnglishAuthor (s)
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2018Publisher
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BENAGES GARCÍA, Laura (2018). Analysing formality and informality in the speech act of requesting in emails from the field of maritime English. Fòrum de recerca, n. 23, p. 341-356Type
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The globalization of trade and the removal of linguistic barriers
led to the development of English for Business Purposes (EBP), as
used in the business world and its communication processes. Email
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The globalization of trade and the removal of linguistic barriers
led to the development of English for Business Purposes (EBP), as
used in the business world and its communication processes. Email
correspondence promotes the interconnectedness of society as
communication happens directly and faster. Speech acts of
requesting are performed to express writers’ intentions and to
involve readers in an action. Written registers allow issuers and
receivers to cooperate and negotiate meaning in a polite way when
exchanging information. Among EBP, subareas of language study are
developing, such as Maritime English, which intertwines
communication among the diversity of actors involved in the
shipping industry in the process of exporting and importing. It is a
fact that differences in language and culture affect communication.
The aim of this paper is to examine whether the degree of formality
and informality varies according to the knowledge of the shipping
process and the domain of the target language to avoid
misunderstandings and create fluency in all maritime procedures.
Formal and informal features of requests will be studied in
correspondence between a Vietnamese and a Spanish company in a
maritime transaction. The preliminary results of the research show
that depending on the expertise of the development of trade, the
command of the language, and the importance of the written
statements, requests are more direct when operations are better
controlled by the actors involved, and indirect when there are more
doubts in those operations. Hence, to achieve the necessary business
flow, it is crucial to command the situation by both senders and
receivers. [-]
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XXIII Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials (Any 2018)
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