Discourse connectives in genres of financial disclosure: Earnings presentations vs. earnings releases

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 650-663

  Crawford Camiciottoli, Belinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business discourse; Corpus methodology; Discourse connectives; Financial disclosure; Presentations; Press releases

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149092169     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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