Functional Styles
This functional style aims to establish, develop, and control business relations between individuals and organizations.
What is the style of official documents?
In accounting, this phrase refers to the recording of expected losses at the highest possible amount rather than the lowest.
What is the prudence concept?
This idiomatic term refers to a person who provides capital but does not participate in management.
What is a "sleeping partner"
These phraseological units belong to common literary style and are used so naturally by native speakers that they don't realize they are using idioms.
What are colloquial phraseological units?
Students should start learning business terminology by mastering these expressions which show no signs of semantic transformation.
What are traditional lexical collocations (or set expressions)?
This specific variety of official document style is recognized by terms such as "high contracting parties" and "to ratify an agreement".
What is the diplomatic substyle?
In banking, these three words are written on a check when there is not enough money in the account to pay it.
What is "refer to drawer"?
This phrase means to express that a bargain or deal is binding through a physical gesture
: What is "to shake hands on a deal"?
This phrase is used in business to mean making a new and different decision or choice
What is "to change one's mind"?
Terms like "transport company" or "commercial bank" are easy for Russian students because they are considered this type of term.
What are international terms?
Unlike scientific prose, this style of language strictly excludes words with emotive meaning, except for conventional greetings.
What is the official document style?
This finance term describes money passed quickly between countries to take advantage of different interest or exchange rates.
What is "hot money"?
This term describes a connection with an enterprise that involves personal gain.
What is a "vested interest"?
This specific technique is a method of statistical tests that even advanced students may struggle to guess without help.
What is the "Monte Carlo technique"?
Phraseological units with this type of "transference of meaning" are the most difficult for students to decode.
What is "complete transference"?
This style is divided into substyles including humanitarian sciences, "exact" sciences, and popular scientific prose.
What is the scientific prose functional style?
Used in buying and selling, this term describes a forceful way of getting people to purchase products.
What is "hard sell"?
This two-word phrase is used to describe dishonest or unethical business dealings.
Answer: What is "sharp practice"?
This idiomatic expression refers to holding a "big bag" of valuables that are very difficult to sell or realize.
What is "to be loaded up"?
This is the ultimate practical aim of teaching a foreign language to business students.
What is complete mastery of form and content for free communication?
According to the text, these are considered the products of the development of the written variety of language.
What are functional styles?
This commerce term describes a group of sellers in the same industry who agree to fix a minimum price for a product.
What is a "price ring"?
This "effect" occurs when people view a company positively simply because it is connected to a famous or important parent company.
What is the "halo effect"?
These are money or loans given under certain political and economic restrictions.
What are "loan strings"?
According to the text, the English language is full of these, including bizarre spelling and illogical grammar, but idioms are the most common.
What are "pitfalls"?