The use of boosters and hedges in the letter to shareholders sections of annual reports
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[1] Universidad de Zaragoza
Universidad de Zaragoza
Zaragoza, España
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- Localización: Languages for business: a global approach: seminar proceedigs, Ávila, Spain 2009 / coord. por Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría, Maida Watson, 2009, ISBN 978-84-92774-01-2, págs. 69-83
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The main purpose of this study is to demystify the construction, interpretation, and exploitation of Chairman´s statements by analyzing how corporate writers appropriate and exploit linguistic resources to achieve their private intentions of promoting their corporate interests within the socially accepted norms of factual corporate reporting. Based on a corpus of corporate annual reports, the study will use a multi-perspective critical genre analytical approach (Bhatia 2004, 2008) to study the use of linguistic resources employed to achieve these dual objectives, especially in the board of directors' statements sections that are addressed to shareholders and other parties who have an interest in the economic health of the company. The focus will be on the uses of hedges and boosters as resources used to either mitigate or emphasize the likelihood of future success.
