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Why do firms strategically delay payments of corporate loans?

open access: yesJournal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Firms may prefer to delay some loan payments while continuing to service others because of lender and loan characteristics. I explore the impact of bank‐level and bank‐firm‐level indicators on the strategic delay behaviors of nonfinancial corporations. Three factors play a key role in their strategic delay decisions.
Ahmet Deryol
wiley   +1 more source

AMICUS (Volume 8, Issue No. 2) (Fall 2009) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Roger Williams University School of Law
core   +1 more source

Mental health interventions for individuals with serious mental illness in the criminal legal system: a systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry
Hailemariam M   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Intertextuality in Chinese Courtroom Discourse

Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2014
Abstract Intertextuality, an important concept in semiotics, refers to the property texts have of being full of snatches of other texts. This paper analyzes specific and generic intertextuality of Chinese courtroom discourse. In the analysis of specific intertextuality, it is found that 1) “specific and exact news source” and “implicit ...
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An analysis of modality in Chinese courtroom discourse

Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 2012
Abstract This paper analyzes modality in Chinese courtroom discourse, using the audio recording transcripts of eight court trials as data. Based on the findings, four major types of modal expressions are used by courtroom participants: modal verbs, modal adjuncts, interpersonal metaphors, and personal pronouns.
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A study of interruption in Chinese criminal courtroom discourse

Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse Communication Studies, 2009
This article is based on a corpus of transcripts of four criminal courtroom trials in China. It investigates interruption in the Chinese criminal courtroom discourse as a highly institutionalized and strongly goal-oriented discourse. The study focuses on the number, functions, causes, and distribution of interruptions as well as their correlation with ...
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An analysis of attitude in chinese courtroom discourse

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2018
AbstractAttitude is an important resource for courtroom discourse to perform interpersonal functions. This paper analyzes the attitude expressions in the audio recording transcripts of eight trials and finds that: judgement is the most important way for courtroom participants to express attitude, followed by appreciation, while affect is the least ...
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Public prosecutors in the Chinese criminal trial – courtroom discourse from the prosecution perspective

International Journal of Legal Discourse, 2016
AbstractThe prosecutor is an influential party in criminal justice systems, and this is true also of China. But most literature on China concentrates on the trial and criminal defence with comparatively little attention paid to the prosecution perspective.
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