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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
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Integrating relational and intentional theories of discourse coherence
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
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Rhetorical relations in academic texts: contrastive study of English and Czech
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
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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
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Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales
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
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SRST: A Storytelling Model Using Rhetorical Relations
. 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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