ВЧЕНІ ЗАПИСКИ, vol.33, pp.229-234, 2022 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Business correspondence always serves communication with an accuracy purpose, complete
actual issues, and is addressed to a specific communication partner. In written communication
partners, goals, conditions, methods and organization of communication form the structure of business
discourse. In business correspondence the full and accurate application of these components allows
for positive and effective communication.
The texts of business letters written in the Azerbaijani language, which is one of the main means
of business communication, are drawn to study in the article. A business letter is a legally business
document that serves to enter, store and transmit information. Writing business letters involves
a certain reaction of the addressee, that is, within the communicative situation, one letter is followed
by a series of thematic texts related to it – reply letters. Categories of business discourse are applied
in the official sections of the business correspondence document and directly in the text itself.
The analysis leads to the conclusion that in all sections of the business letter in the Azerbaijani
language there is a rational compatibility of standard elements and lexical, morphological
and syntactic language units and means normalized at all levels of language. The article considers
the characteristics of different categories of business discourse in the genre of business letter,
reflecting this rational correspondence. The expediency of the analysis of the texts of business letters
within the discursive approach is substantiated.
The main factor of article on business communication is also stressed importantly. It makes
opportunity to understand more clearly and more easily and expressed more correctly and it allows
determining the content, function and structure of the correspondence.
The purpose of business documents is to convey the author’s point of view and position to
the person to whom the correspondence is addressed. Well-educated and convincing arguments are
valued as one of the key tools in achieving this goal.