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How Firms ‘Speak’ Social: Disclosure Posture as a Stable Strategic Communication Construct in ESG Reporting

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why do firms subject to identical ESG reporting requirements nevertheless ‘speak’ the Social pillar in different ways? Some foreground numerical indicators; others rely on narrative accounts of policies, systems and stakeholder engagement. This variation in disclosure form, rather than in disclosure coverage, motivates this exploratory study ...
Laurence L. Delina, Leslie Anne L. Yasis
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating relational and intentional theories of discourse coherence

open access: yesGlossa
This paper explores the ways in which insights from the two influential formal pragmatic theories of discourse coherence, namely, Question Under Discussion (QUD) and Rhetorical Relation (RR) models, can be integrated to build a more inclusive ...
EunHee Lee
doaj   +2 more sources

Rhetorical relations in academic texts: contrastive study of English and Czech

open access: yes, 2017
The present work describes coherence structure of English and Czech book introductions. The account of coherence is based on Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann and Thompson, 1988; Mann and Taboada, 2006) which posits that majority of texts have one main ...
Jansová, Cecílie
core  

From Dictionaries to Deep Learning: A Systematic Mapping Review of the Natural Language Processing Tasks Used to Analyze Sustainability Reports

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims at shedding light on the vast landscape of natural language processing (NLP) tasks used when analyzing sustainability reports or sustainability within integrated annual reports. A systematic literature review is carried out, identifying 160 studies of relevance.
Hannes Cordes
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales

open access: yes, 1998
Rhetorical questions, and other varieties of pragmatically conditioned questions, present a challenge for a purely truth-conditional theory of the interpretation of interrogatives.
Gutiérrez Rexach, Javier
core   +1 more source

SRST: A Storytelling Model Using Rhetorical Relations

open access: yes, 2008
. Storytelling models are usually constrained to the applications they are implemented in because of the particular characteristics of the data used to define story events and the way those events are linked.
Mitsuru Ishizuka, Arturo Nakasone
core  

Accountability Beyond ESG Disclosure: Credibility, Governance Integrity, and the Sustainability‐Signaling Gap in European Finance

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study addresses significant limitations in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) evaluation by transcending disclosure‐based metrics and presenting a credibility‐focused analytical methodology that assesses the congruence between sustainability signals and substantive performance.
K. Ragazou
wiley   +1 more source

Water Governance Under International Pressure: Policy Narratives, Food Security, Scarcity, and the Politics of Survival in Iran

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water governance is increasingly influenced by a paradox at the nexus of environmental scarcity and food security. Escalating water scarcity crises coincide with geopolitical disruptions that have exposed the fragility of global food supply chains, prompting states to expand domestic food production at the expense of water conservation ...
Alireza Raisi
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies in the Gendered Performances of Nigerian Male Stand-up Comedians

open access: yesTraduction et Langues, 2017
Gender relations are enacted in the day-to-day lived experiences of men and women. Mundane practices such as talks and jokes may not only reflect the prevailing gender relations in society, but may also offer opportunities to contest them.
Chris Lekan Olawale
doaj  

Perceptions of Governance (Il)Legitimacy Mediate Climate Change Adaptation in the Lake Victoria Basin, Uganda

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governance is a well‐known dimension of adaptive capacity across various frameworks, however specific links between perceptions of governance (il)legitimacy and adaptive capacity remain relatively unexplored. In this study, we investigate connections between climate change adaptation and perceptions of governance (il)legitimacy using focus ...
Emma D. Rice   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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