3. Lexical aspects of ibd

Linguists distinguish 2 groups of lexical means used in IBD:

Lexical means, which include terminological meaning in their semantic structure. (Ex Discount – remittance – letter of credit after-payment

throughput maturity – )

Lexical means, which combine terminological and non-terminological meaning. (Ex. Market- treasury- agent – quote – claim –

The first group is united into such thematic groups:

1) Names of doc. – have mostly equivalents in the contrasted languages: Offer – enquiry – order – invoice – memorandum -

2) transporting – includes words and word-combinations, which define the terms of transporting, type and form of it: carrier – title of the goods – transit -

3) insurance – contains words and word-combinations, which define the type of insurance, forms of insurance : insurance – accident insurance -

4) Payment

5) Quality of goods

We expect the goods to be loaded at ones –

The formal tone of the BD can also be achieved by formal clichés:

Because of illness/ For health reasons/ we would like to draw your attention to…/ Allow us to draw your attention to…/ We offer…/ We take the liberty of offering …/

Initial clichés phrases: Your early reply will be appreciated. / We zxpect your early reply.

The most frequently used pronoun: You, then I

Tense forms: Pr. Ind, P.Ind, F.Ind, Pr.Cont, Pr. Perf.

Moods: Indicative and Conditional: We would be grateful if you…/ We offer our apologies for the delay in delivery/ We would like to ask you to excuse the delay (просимо вибачити нас за затримку).

5) Request

We shall be obliged if you will inform us/ Please let us know your quotation as soon as possible/ We are pleased to have your enquiry.

Abbreviations: a.a.r – against all risks

a.c – account current

advt. –advertisement

chq. – cheque

C.N –credit note

Denotative inf. Is realized also through complex syntactical structures such as:

1.Complex sentences; 2. Composed s.; 3. Complex-compound s.

Such s. structures are mostly used in offers and inquires. Besides, sentences become complicated through the use of

~ inf. Constructions

~participial constructions

~gerund

Pragmatic clichés – heperboles:

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Both groups serve to make denotative information more concrete and help to decode the information of the BD. They are constant components of the genre of b. letters.