Stylistic Features Of English Business Articles In Business Week, Forbes And Fortune

The fast integration of world economy and the rapid development of China make it necessary to keep a close eye on the current events and trends in the business world in order to survive and thrive in the increasingly fierce world competition. Therefore, finance and economy articles with the language carrier of English have received massive notice. Further study and research on the distinctive features of English Business articles are necessary.This thesis involves the stylistic analysis of English business articles in Business Week, Forbes and Fortune—totally 25 articles, 25,000 words—from the aspects of lexical features, syntactic features, semantic features and textual features. It illustrates the stylistic features of headline, lead, words, number usage, quotation, and rhetoric etcThe research is not only necessary for the business article readers, but also meaningful for English learners and reporting writers, who might be more efficient in their learning and acquisition of business English with the awareness of the stylistic features.