Coherence created lexically: cohesive devices in company annual reports

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Coherence created lexically: cohesive devices in company annual reports

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Coherence created lexically: cohesive devices in company annual reports

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AI - Jazykověda

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2007

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Complexity and Coherence: Approaches to Linguistic Research and Language Teaching

ISBN

978-3-86727-215-5

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

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Název nakladatele

Cuvillier Verlag

Místo vydání

Goettingen

Místo konání akce

Goettingen

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2007

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

CST - Celostátní akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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