Naumova N. English-language Commercial Contract: Lingual-pragmatic and Lingual-cognitive Aspects

Object - English-language commercial contract, being constituted as the communicational result of the oral negotiations discourse transformation into literately fixed formal business text. Objective - the study of lingual-pragmatic and lingual-cognitive aspects of the English-language commercial contract, as well as verbal means of its arrangement as highly-standardized formal business text. Methods and strategies - discourse, concept, system analysis along with descriptive, contextual, formal-logical, syntagmatical methods. Practical value - the research materials and results can be applied to the university-level course design of theoretical grammar, lexicology, stylistics as well as used for the text and discourse studies. Theoretical significance - the in-depth extension of the current philological understanding of genre-speech specifics, lingual-pragmatic potential and lingual-cognitive parameters of the commercial contract text type. The research output and results are valuable for text linguistics, discursive, cognitive, pragmatic, synergetic studies of language. Scientific branch - philology.