The study establishes the Malaysian chairperson statements from the socio-cognitive and professional practice perspectives. It identifies the move structure of 53 chairperson statements and metadiscourse strategies based on questionnaire and interview responses collected from 39 investors and 3 professional members. Three informational moves are used to assist investment decisions while seven non-informational moves are intended to build good image and good will, and to ensure compliance to requirements. Self-mentions, attitude markers, frame markers and transitions are also used to affectively realise the promotional and interpersonal moves. The chairperson statements are interdiscursively informational, promotional, and public relational. This research highlights pedagogy implications for English for Professional Communication (EPC) programmes, and recommendations for future studies.
In tandem with the importance of chairperson statements as a quick non-technical reference for investment decision making among investors, this study examines the move structuring and each move’s metadiscourse strategies used in Malaysian chairperson statements within the context of value-investing. Drawing on 53 chairperson statements of eleven Malaysian public listed companies shortlisted from 805 companies, this study identifies and describes the genre’s move structuring and interpersonal metadiscourse strategies from textual perspective. It was found that the chairperson statements’ schematic structuring is different from the previous structuring models with four new moves. Marked differences were found in the distribution of interactive and interactional markers across the moves. The findings have thereotical significance.
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