Coherence created lexically: cohesive devices in company annual reports

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angličtina
Original language name
Coherence created lexically: cohesive devices in company annual reports
Original language description
The paper explores the process in which coherence is achieved in the formal written genre of company annual reports. As explicitness, conciseness and unambiguity are fundamental qualities in such a discourse, the main emphasis is put on lexical cohesivedevices, such as repetition and careful use of synonymy. The paper surveys the occurrence of principal cohesive devices in annual reports and in attached financial statements, reflecting their succinct and often fragmentary style, namely the use of articles, pronominal reference, substitution, synonyms and hyper-/hyponyms. It is claimed that rather lexical and syntactic devices contribute to the clarity of expression, compared with an obvious scarcity of logical connectors and other specialised discourse markers expressing sequence, emphasis, certainty, etc. Such preferences derive from the relatively less argumentative and more summative function of annual reports.
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Publication year
2007
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Complexity and Coherence: Approaches to Linguistic Research and Language Teaching
ISBN
978-3-86727-215-5
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Number of pages
10
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Publisher name
Cuvillier Verlag
Place of publication
Goettingen
Event location
Goettingen
Event date
Jan 1, 2007
Type of event by nationality
CST - Celostátní akce
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