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Peer reviewedThomas, Jane – Journal of Business Communication, 1997
Reviews linguistic structures in the annual reports of a machine tool manufacturer. Concludes that, as profits decreased and the news became more negative, linguistic structures (including verb structures, thematic structures, context and cohesion, and condensations) suggested a factual, "objective" situation caused by circumstances not…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
