Rhetoric in financial discourse : a linguistic analysis of ICT-mediated disclosure genres / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camiciottoli, Belinda Crawford.

Series:

Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication 26.

Utrecht studies in language and communication ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Financial disclosure has become a crucial component of corporate communication. Through this process, companies aim to provide information and project an image of trustworthiness in response to on-going ethical concerns in the world of finance. Rhetoric in financial discourse provides new insights into how companies communicate with key stakeholders, not only to boost transparency, but also to attract investment. The book offers an in-depth linguistic analysis of the rhetorical dimension of financial communication. It focuses on two technology-mediated genres which are widely used, yet remain largely unexplored from a rhetorical perspective: earnings presentations and earnings releases. Using an innovative methodological approach, the book shows how corporate speakers and writers use distinctive rhetorical strategies to achieve their professional goals. It includes a practical discussion of how the findings can be exploited to develop state-of-the-art corporate communication courses and to improve the effectiveness of financial disclosure in professional settings. The book contributes to an enhanced understanding of the language of finance, representing a discourse community that involves and impacts the lives of many people around the world. It will be of interest to several communities of practice, including language researchers, discourse analysts, corpus linguists, finance and communication academics, students of business and finance, and professionals of financial communication.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Introduction / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Financial disclosure / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

The three-pronged analytical approach / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Evaluation as a rhetorical strategy / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Methodology / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Structural analysis / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Attitude: evaluative adjectives / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Engagement: concessive connectives / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Graduation: intensifiers and mitigators / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Final considerations / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

References / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Keyness scores in the EP corpus / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Keyness scores in the ER corpus / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Evaluative adjectives in the EP Corpus / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Evaluative adjectives in the ER Corpus / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Name Index / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Subject index / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 27, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-193) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789401210102

9401210101

OCLC:

863949959

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401210102 DOI