The advent of the Intemet has witnessed a revolution in the business world. One typical example is the emergence of the B2B website. The present paper looks at the B2B website, a conventionalized digital text, in term...The advent of the Intemet has witnessed a revolution in the business world. One typical example is the emergence of the B2B website. The present paper looks at the B2B website, a conventionalized digital text, in terms of its communicative purposes, move features as well as linguistic specialties, with the aim of presenting the generic structure of the B2B website and its principal linguistic features contributing to the realization of its communicative purposes. It is demonstrated that the B2B website is one instance of the promotional genres and it has a lot in common with advertisement English and "netsneak" in the aspect of lexico-grammatical features.展开更多
文摘The advent of the Intemet has witnessed a revolution in the business world. One typical example is the emergence of the B2B website. The present paper looks at the B2B website, a conventionalized digital text, in terms of its communicative purposes, move features as well as linguistic specialties, with the aim of presenting the generic structure of the B2B website and its principal linguistic features contributing to the realization of its communicative purposes. It is demonstrated that the B2B website is one instance of the promotional genres and it has a lot in common with advertisement English and "netsneak" in the aspect of lexico-grammatical features.