An Analysis on the Stylistic Features of English Business Correspondence

Business correspondence is a kind of pragmatic style in written form which is used through the whole business activity,and its main function is to transfer information.This paper aims at analyzing two English business letters as examples by using the methods of stylistics,and goes on analyzing the two in terms of the graphological,lexical,syntactic and textual features.In general,the use of the four stylistic features helps to write an English business letter formally,concisely and courteously.But there is no absolute standard for English business letter writing,because it depends on the actual purpose of language use.