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Goals in Discourse - From Actions to Rhetorical Relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This book provides a better understanding of rhetorical relations and their impact on the referent's abilities to serve as non-local antecedents for referential expressions.
Zickenheiner, Frank
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Beyond the Reports: Cultural Pressures, Unheard Voices and the Climate Accountability Gap in Oil and Gas Sector Governance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental governance in Nigeria's oil and gas sector remains central to global climate justice debates, yet persistent accountability failures continue to undermine meaningful environmental and social outcomes. Despite extensive regulatory frameworks, accountability in resource‐dependent contexts is frequently reduced to formal reporting ...
Hammed Afolabi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability‐Oriented Purpose: To Be or to Seem? Evaluating How Sustainability‐Oriented Purpose Statements Affect Environmental, Social, and Economic Performance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past decades, sustainability has emerged as a defining global priority, reshaping firms' role in driving systemic change. In this context, corporate purpose has gained renewed prominence as a key mechanism to align organizational priorities with broader societal commitments.
Lucia Barra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intertwining HR Practices and Sustainability: A Cross‐Systematization of the Current Literature

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nowadays, organizations are experiencing a reorientation of their corporate strategies to pursue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here, not only can the concept of sustainability be interpreted in several ways but even each human resource (HR) practice seems to contribute to sustainable business performance differently.
Silvia Barghini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a top-down approach for an automatic discourse analysis for Basque: Segmentation and Central Unit detection tool.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Lately, discourse structure has received considerable attention due to the benefits its application offers in several NLP tasks such as opinion mining, summarization, question answering, text simplification, among others.
Aitziber Atutxa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Disclosure Type Matter? Climate‐Related Financial Disclosures and Corporate Performance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our study examines the financial implications of corporate climate‐related financial disclosures while distinguishing between quantitative and qualitative disclosures. We use a multiple‐period difference‐in‐differences approach to analyze Japanese firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market from 2019 to 2023.
Alexander Ryota Keeley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative support for technical documents: Formalising Rhetorical Structure Theory

open access: yes, 2005
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is an area that requires a lot of technical documents and an important feature of a well-written document is a coherent narrative.
Henderson, Peter, De Silva, Nishadi
core   +1 more source

Pragmatic Issues in Discourse Analysis

open access: yesCritical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2007
Starting from the problems raised by the notion of ‘discourse’ and its definition, this paper takes issue with the views that consider discourse as an object of study observable and describable as a ‘whole’ static structure, and which meaning is richer ...
Louis de Saussure
doaj  

A Rhetorical Stylistic Analysis of English Political Headlines in Selected Newspapers

open access: yesمجلة الآداب
This study explores the language used in reporting political headlines conducting a rhetorical stylistic analysis. It is based on showing the effect of the rhetorical stylistic relations in news reporting. The aim is to investigate the structure adopted
Sawsan Hassan
doaj   +1 more source

Displacement and Overall Conflictual Relations (OCR) as Patterns to Instantiate Academic Conflict in Major Applied Linguistics Textbooks

open access: yesJournal of Language and Education, 2017
Following Giannoni’s classification of the rhetorical strategies for overt (rather than covert) negative evaluation, the current study aimed to investigate lexico-grammatical structures to instantiate Overall Conflictual Relations and Displacement as two
Babak Majidzadeh, A. Majid Hayati
doaj   +1 more source

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