1 BUSINESS ENGLISH AND FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS: TEACHING PRACTICAL ENGLISH IN PERFECT HARMONY WITH THEORY

For teachers of Business English and other English for Specific Purposes (ESP) areas one of the most topical tasks today is to help future specialists master the necessary language means not just as a multitude of units, but as a system of communication devices aimed at solving any problem arising in professional interaction. That’s why we include in the teaching process not only lexical, grammatical and stylistic aspects of professional discourse, but also such aspect as developing various skills of effective rhetoric influence on a partner. To this end some adapted methods of functional linguistics prove to be helpful, which makes the focus of the present paper