The Texts of Business Correspondence

The article presents the specificity and topical requirements in the creation of texts for business correspondence which is the essential part of business communication in all fields of public, social and economic life. Business cor­respondence is the main and immense volume of work of institutions; the purpose of business correspondence is to establish and strengthen effective business relations – without it busi­ness communication cannot be realized. Last, but not least, there is personal business corre­spondence without which no civilized individual could integrate themselves into society. The author focuses on the peculiarities of business discourse for which the respec­tive business texts are intended, as well as on the specificity of creating the various genre forms of business correspondence. Modern written business communication obeys strict communicative and language laws. The end result of communication depends greatly on the way a business text is comprised, what the style is, the way the information is structured and how the message sounds as a whole. The pragmatic generalization of the author’s ex­perience and theoretical qualification on the issues of business correspondence and com­munication is useful to every modern writer who conducts business and personal corre­spondence. The article has a pragmatic purpose and it is also a synthesized answer to a number of questions that business communicators face.