International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Том 10. 2003. С. 203-220
Economic discourse is considered to be a complex, diverse institutional formation, where the communicants represent a specific social institution. The economic discourse has a clear communicative and cultural setting, characteristics of pragmatic meaning and stylistic ordering. In addition, it has generally accepted norms of communication as well as the socio-stratificational component, which is expressed in the compilation of business communication in accordance with the hierarchical principle, leading to the fulfillment of the phatic, emotional and motivating functions of this communication.