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In times of crisis : a corpus approach to the construction of the financial crisis annual reports
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2011.
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Abstract
- Although both academics and policy-makers still debate its exact causes and the extent of its consequences, the ongoing nancial crisis is doubtlessly the most distinctive economic event of the late 2000s. But despite the importance of such large-scale economic phenomena, there has been little research on their discursive construction. This paper presents some empirical data to show how the crisis is identi ed and its boundaries construed in corporate communication, seeking to understand how economic actors selectively shape public perceptions of critical events by routinely emphasising the role of certain agents and stakeholders while ignoring others. Terms for the crisis, their collocates and their discourse preferences are 1 drawn from a 1'500'000-word ad-hoc corpus of annual reports.
- Subjects :
- corporate social responsibility
business.industry
Discourse analysis
Event (relativity)
financial crisis
corpus linguistics
General Social Sciences
Social Sciences
Samhällsvetenskap
Accounting
Corpus linguistics
Political economy
Political science
Financial crisis
Corporate social responsibility
business
crisis communication
discourse analysis
annual reports
Crisis communication
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f8bbacd1d995cb082d1b5557dd3a4320