Informationsverarbeitung und Textkompetenz im Bereich der Geschäftsbriefe
On Processing Information and Textual Competence in business Letter Writing

Summary/Abstract: As is known, communication via business letters belongs to the domain of standardized communication flows. The question arises as to how higher education should/can provide certain skills and competencies for a professional text production in this field, in today's times of professional training requirements. The present paper tackles the FLT-/ LSP- technical "writing problem", in order to analyze communication competence for possible/foreseeable future professional tasks of (advanced German learning) students of Economics. The aim of the paper is thus to present some aspects of genre and text competence as well as of information structuring processes in business correspondence. Beyond the specificity of the LSP-text “business letter”, the discussion focuses on structural patterns shaping the letter text, together with their possible linguistic realization.

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