The aim of this study is to examine the buyer-seller re-lationship in Hong Kong’s clothing industry.The initialpart investigated the industry’s environment.Four hy-pothesis were developed which were based on the lon...The aim of this study is to examine the buyer-seller re-lationship in Hong Kong’s clothing industry.The initialpart investigated the industry’s environment.Four hy-pothesis were developed which were based on the long-term buyer-seller relationships’features.The benefitsthat can enjoy within the stage of long-term buyer-seller relationships was the defined and suggested.展开更多
EBay, as one of the typical enterprise of e-commerce, is also becoming more and more popular with worldwide people. EBay is regarded as the number one in the field of online auction business. It is well-known that now...EBay, as one of the typical enterprise of e-commerce, is also becoming more and more popular with worldwide people. EBay is regarded as the number one in the field of online auction business. It is well-known that nowadays the college graduates have to face fierce employment pressure. Therefore, doing business on eBay may be a good choice for college graduates to start their colorful lives. This paper tries to study the business English applied in doing eBay business with the aim to help the new sellers and know about the procedures of starting business on eBay. The results presented in this paper are based on the experience of some long-term sellers of eBay and the Hands-on of the author. From this paper the readers can easily realize that the every steps of begin business on eBay depends on the help of business English.展开更多
Language plays a significant role in business,trade and commerce.Bargaining in open-air markets often involves the speech act of negotiating,compromising and manoeuvring,which could either result in conflict or persua...Language plays a significant role in business,trade and commerce.Bargaining in open-air markets often involves the speech act of negotiating,compromising and manoeuvring,which could either result in conflict or persuasion of the potential buyer to patronize a seller.This article examined the sociolinguistic aspects of language use between sellers and buyers in Ipata,a popular market in Ilorin,north-central Nigeria.The call strategy,spiel,honorification,pragmatic mechanics as well as sociolinguistic style employed by vendors were observed.The objectives of the study were to:identify the number of languages used in Ipata market;investigate the factors that influence the choice of any of the languages used between sellers and buyers at a particular time;analyze their sociolinguistic and stylistic features;and discuss some of the barriers that could cause intercultural communication breakdown between sellers and buyers in a market situation.Oral interview,systematic observation and Bauman’s(2001)method of street recording were used to gather data for the study.Sixty-five people comprising thirty-six females and twenty-nine males were interviewed.The survey which spanned three months discovered that open-air markets bear some universal features,however,due to cultural relativity,variations occur.To this end,it was established that Ipata market harbours different languages;it also identified calls and spiels with their characteristic stylistic,sociolinguistic and discourse features in the market.In conclusion,the study argued that studying the verbal discourse of marketplaces is significant as it defines what the language-culture-society-relationship is all about.展开更多
文摘The aim of this study is to examine the buyer-seller re-lationship in Hong Kong’s clothing industry.The initialpart investigated the industry’s environment.Four hy-pothesis were developed which were based on the long-term buyer-seller relationships’features.The benefitsthat can enjoy within the stage of long-term buyer-seller relationships was the defined and suggested.
文摘EBay, as one of the typical enterprise of e-commerce, is also becoming more and more popular with worldwide people. EBay is regarded as the number one in the field of online auction business. It is well-known that nowadays the college graduates have to face fierce employment pressure. Therefore, doing business on eBay may be a good choice for college graduates to start their colorful lives. This paper tries to study the business English applied in doing eBay business with the aim to help the new sellers and know about the procedures of starting business on eBay. The results presented in this paper are based on the experience of some long-term sellers of eBay and the Hands-on of the author. From this paper the readers can easily realize that the every steps of begin business on eBay depends on the help of business English.
文摘Language plays a significant role in business,trade and commerce.Bargaining in open-air markets often involves the speech act of negotiating,compromising and manoeuvring,which could either result in conflict or persuasion of the potential buyer to patronize a seller.This article examined the sociolinguistic aspects of language use between sellers and buyers in Ipata,a popular market in Ilorin,north-central Nigeria.The call strategy,spiel,honorification,pragmatic mechanics as well as sociolinguistic style employed by vendors were observed.The objectives of the study were to:identify the number of languages used in Ipata market;investigate the factors that influence the choice of any of the languages used between sellers and buyers at a particular time;analyze their sociolinguistic and stylistic features;and discuss some of the barriers that could cause intercultural communication breakdown between sellers and buyers in a market situation.Oral interview,systematic observation and Bauman’s(2001)method of street recording were used to gather data for the study.Sixty-five people comprising thirty-six females and twenty-nine males were interviewed.The survey which spanned three months discovered that open-air markets bear some universal features,however,due to cultural relativity,variations occur.To this end,it was established that Ipata market harbours different languages;it also identified calls and spiels with their characteristic stylistic,sociolinguistic and discourse features in the market.In conclusion,the study argued that studying the verbal discourse of marketplaces is significant as it defines what the language-culture-society-relationship is all about.
