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Altaic hypotaxis and the expression of rhetorical relations
, 2009 Hypotactic languages of the Altaic type, such as Manchu, tend to pack information into long sentences containing numerous phrases headed by verbs, but few finite clauses. The aspectual markers on the verbs heading such phrases function to mark rhetorical
Binnick, Robert
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability awards have become an increasingly visible mechanism for recognising firms' environmental and social performance. This paper examines the individual and combined effects of climate change disclosure and the external assurance of sustainability reports on firms' likelihood of receiving awards for sustainability performance. Using
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez +3 more
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RHETORIC, GRAMMAR, DISCOURSE AND HOMEOSTASIS
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2018 The paper compares the rhetorical, grammatical and discourse approaches to the study of language by focusing on issues of systematization and the contrast between controlled and adaptive systems.
GEORGIY G KHAZAGEROV
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Prosodic Correlates of Rhetorical Relations
, 2008 This paper investigates the usefulness of prosodic features in classifying rhetorical relations between utterances in meeting recordings. Five rhetorical relations of contrast, elaboration, summary, question and cause are explored. Three training methods-
Steve Renals +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social and environmental accounting provides accountability mechanisms through which organisations communicate their sustainability practices to stakeholders. However, the increasing volume, complexity and diversity of sustainability disclosures make manual content analysis both labour‐intensive and susceptible to subjectivity.
Tarek Rana +6 more
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Ilha do Desterro, 2008 Current theorizing on genre within Systemic Functional Linguiscs (SFL) as well as other traditions of genre analysis have not paid much attention to the interrelationship between the notions of rhetorical mode and genre.
José Luiz Meurer
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Taxonomy of Discourse Signals for RST Relations: A Study in a News Corpus [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada: We have observed that the relationship between two or more textual propositions is not always signaled by prepositions or conjunctions, commonly referred to as Discourse Markers (DMs).
Jackson Wilke da Cruz Souza +2 more
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Rhetorical theory and public relations: from the agora to the postmodern
, 2006 Rhetorical theory and public relations: from the agora to the ...
Stephen Mackey (13082622)
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Who Qualifies to Assure? The Professional and Managerial Capture of Sustainability Assurance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the qualification of assurors in sustainability and environmental reporting assurance (SERA) is constructed and why it remains fiercely contested. Drawing on actor–network theory (ANT) and qualitative evidence from regulators, NGOs, assurors and reporting companies in India, we conceptualise ‘qualification’ as a ...
Flavia Rodricks +2 more
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Employing Content Analysis in ESG Research: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study systematically reviews the application of content analysis in environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure research. Although content analysis is widely employed to examine ESG reporting, methodological approaches, disclosure channels and analytical practices remain fragmented, limiting methodological coherence and the ...
Hamed Mohammad Esmail Mohammad +3 more
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