Representation of interpersonal relationships in English business discourse

The purpose of the study is to find out which components of the frame of interpersonal relations are activated in the projection to the industrial sphere, based on the analysis and systematization of linguistic means of representing interpersonal relations in English business discourse. The work examines the frame of interpersonal relations and identifies those of its characteristics that are activated in a context limited by the work conditions. In this regard, the author analyzes scientific works devoted to the topic of discourse, provides an existing typology of discourse and describes the characteristics of business discourse. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the systematization of lexical units with the semantic component “interpersonal relationships” used in the context of business relations. As a result of the conducted research, it was established that a wide range of linguistic means is used to represent interpersonal relations. It was revealed that in most cases the institutional nature of business discourse is preserved, which is demonstrated by the examples considered. However, in some cases the speaker intentionally allows deviation from the features of business discourse, while maintaining the professional context. This indicates that business discourse has variants of strict and non-strict regulations, which, in turn, refers to the need to work further on classification of discourse.