Autore
Falco, Gaetano

Titolo
The Corporate Annual Report as Genre Mixing: Making Meaning through Interdiscursivity
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 127 - Pagina finale: 138

This paper presents the initial results of a research carried out on acorpus of Corporate Annual Reports (ARs). Using a methodologywhich combines tools and perspectives from different linguistic fields,namely Genre and Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics,Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics, the research studies interdiscursivityin ARs as exemplifications of genre mixing. Specifically, we assume that thedocuments forming the AR, namely the CEO's Letter to the Shareholders,the Chairman's Letter and the Financial Statements, can be considered asrepresentative of genres which provide conflicting representations of thesame reality by adopting different communicative strategies. While eachgenre represents the same corporate facts differently, they shed light on eachother, thus enabling the addressees, both shareholders and stakeholders, tomake sense of the implicit and explicit messages of the documents. Wealso assume that the study of interdiscursivity can prove advantageous tolinguists and translators, too.



SICI: 1824-3967(2013)1<127:TCARAG>2.0.ZU;2-4
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