<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The aim of this paper is to research the word class adjective in one sequence of the ESP: Business English, more precisely English business magazines online. It is an empirical study on the corpus taken from a variety of business magazines online. The empirical analysis allows a comprehensive insight into the word class adjective in this variety of Business English and makes its contribution to English syntax, semantics and word formation. The syntactic part analyses the adjective position in the sentence. The semantic part of the study identifies the most common adjectives that appear in English business magazines online. Most of the analysis is devoted to the word formation of the adjectives found in the corpus. The corpus is analysed in such a way that it enables its division into compounds, derivatives and conversions. The results obtained in this way will give a comprehensive picture of the word class adjective in this type of Business English and can act as a starting point for further research of the word class adjective.</p></abstract>

The aim of this paper is to research the word class adjective in one sequence of the ESP: Business English, more precisely English business magazines online. It is an empirical study on the corpus taken from a variety of business magazines online. The empirical analysis allows a comprehensive insight into the word class adjective in this variety of Business English and makes its contribution to English syntax, semantics and word formation. The syntactic part analyses the adjective position in the sentence. The semantic part of the study identifies the most common adjectives that appear in English business magazines online. Most of the analysis is devoted to the word formation of the adjectives found in the corpus. The corpus is analysed in such a way that it enables its division into compounds, derivatives and conversions. The results obtained in this way will give a comprehensive picture of the word class adjective in this type of Business English and can act as a starting point for further research of the word class adjective.

The Word Class Adjective in English Business Magazines Online

College of Applied Sciences “Lavoslav Ružička”

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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The aim of this paper is to research the word class adjective in one sequence of the ESP: Business English, more precisely English business magazines online....

The Word Class Adjective in English Business Magazines Online

Online veröffentlicht: 07. Dez. 2018

Seitenbereich: 99 - 115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2018-0018

Schlüsselwörter
word class adjective, ESP, business magazines online, syntax, semantics, word formation

© 2018 Borislav Marušić et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Word Class Adjective in English Business Magazines Online

Online veröffentlicht: 07. Dez. 2018

Seitenbereich: 99 - 115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2018-0018

Schlüsselwörterword class adjective, ESP, business magazines online, syntax, semantics, word formation

© 2018 Borislav Marušić et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
word class adjective, ESP, business magazines online, syntax, semantics, word formation