Business Discourse in English and Uzbek Print Publications
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article compares how business discourse is realised in contemporary English language and Uzbek language print publications. Using a corpus of forty articles (twenty from leading British and U S business newspapers and magazines, twenty from major Uzbek newspapers and periodicals, all 2023–2024), the study undertakes (i) a qualitative discourse pragmatic reading of genre, stance and interpersonal positioning, and (ii) a quantitative mapping of key business terms, loan word density and metadiscoursal markers. Results indicate that English texts display a condensed, data driven argumentative style reliant on acronyms and nominal groups, whereas Uzbek texts mix formal register with persuasive rhetoric and a markedly higher proportion of unassimilated English loanwords. Sociolinguistically, loans are linked to prestige and global orientation, yet they co-exist with indigenous neologisms promoted by language policy initiatives. Findings contribute to cross linguistic business communication studies and have implications for translators and journalism educators.
Author: Rakhmatov, Islombek
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6911999660
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