This plenary address paper traces the development of accounting narratives in external
reporting practice and research, focussing on corporate-sourced financial communications …

Purpose Using composite style measures of the letter to shareholders, the purpose of this
paper is to elaborate dominant rhetorical profiles and qualify them from an impression …

From a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective, this paper reports on the findings of
an exploratory studyexamining the features of the academic texts produced by three groups …

Oral presentations are a core component of many business English courses and yet they
have been the subject of surprisingly little research in contexts where English functions as a …

Every fiscal quarter, companies hold earnings calls in which company executives respond to
questions from analysts. After these calls, analysts often change their price target …

Earnings conference calls (ECCs) have received considerable attention within accounting
and finance studies which found that such voluntary disclosures provide investors with …

Metadiscourse analysis reveals the way writers engage with different texts and communicate
with each other. Examining these linguistic resources is important because they play a vital …

This thesis reports on research whose aim is to arrive at a linguistically theorised
understanding of the process of decision-making in undergraduate business studies. The …

Recent advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have had a strong
impact on how members of the global financial community interact. In particular …

Thematic progression and the composition of information value contribute to the
development of well-structured meaningful text. Discourse-based research of the textual …