Earnings calls: Exploring an emerging financial reporting genre

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 343-359

  Camiciottoli, Belinda Crawford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

corporate discourse; earnings calls; financial disclosure; interdiscursivity; intertextuality; rhetorical strategies; structural moves; teleconferencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649308961     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481310381681     Document Type: Article

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