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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Linguística AplicadaThis paper has two objectives. First, by analyzing THE PLACE FOR THE EVENT-type metonymies, this paper points out that it is mainly negative events that are expressed by this type of metonymy. Second, this paper reveals the motivations of those THE PLACE
Nami Arimitsu
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2018 According to Allan & Burridge [1991: 11], “[a] euphemism is used as an alternative to a dispreferred expression, in order to avoid possible loss of face: either one’s own face or, through giving offence, that of the audience, or some third party.” The ...
Denis Jamet
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes how industrial relations actors maintain legitimacy in global labor governance by investigating the legitimation politics at the International Labour Organization (ILO). Drawing on the concept of legitimacy tests, we identify three strategies that the workers' and employers' groups at the ILO have deployed to maintain ...
Huw Thomas, Vicente Silva
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, 1998 In the standard physical interpretation of quantum theory, prediction and retrodiction are not symmetric. The opposite assertion by some authors results from their use of non-standard interpretations of the theory.Comment: final version in Physics ...
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The Epistemic Harms of Botched Apologies for Past Wrongs
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Apologies often create expectations of meaningful change and repair. Yet when institutions or states deliver apologies for past wrongs that lack substantive reparative action, they risk deepening, rather than redressing, the harms they acknowledge.
Abraham Tobi
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Narratives Contextualizing Numeric Disclosures: Insights From Earnings Calls
Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate how narrative disclosures during earnings conference calls (ECCs) provide context for quantitative numeric disclosures in quarterly earnings releases, enhancing their informativeness. Drawing on a large sample of 34,918 quarterly ECCs from 1621 US‐listed firms from 2007 to 2020, we extract interpretable textual attributes—such ...
Imelda Taraj, Ranik Raaen Wahlstrøm
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EUPHEMISM IN ANIĆ'S DICTIONARY
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2005 Euphemism is one of the lexicographical marks for loaded words in Anić dictionaries. Anić defines euphemism as a «milder word». The euphemisms are hard to identify, the proof for it is the fact that we can find only 25 euphemisms in the Anić Dictionary ...
Dinka Pasini
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2012 X-phemism motivates language change by promoting new expressions, or new meanings for old expressions, and causing some existing vocabulary to be abandoned.
Keith Allan
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