Review of Studies on Corporate Annual Reports During 1990-2012

Mobasher, Atefeh; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Abdullah, Faiz Sathi; Chan, Mei Yuit

doi:10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.2n.2p.133

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“…In fact, they provided a list of moves and a list of strategies separately. In other words, these strategies were not bound to a particular move (Mobasher, et al, 2013). For example, in De Groot's (2008) model there is a move named 'speculating on future' and two strategies 'future prospects' and 'future objective'.…”

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Exploring the Macrostructure of Management Forewords of Corporate Annual Reports

Mobasher

Ali

2014

IJALEL

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Management foreword is an unedited qualitative section of Corporate Annual Reports (CARs). It is also considered as the most widely read section of CARs which may reveal the financial condition of the company. So far, only few language studies have embarked on analysis of this section and they have mainly focused on the genre content of management foreword rather than its genre structure. Nevertheless, the few genre studies conducted had several shortcomings in the model proposed. Besides, none of the previously move analysis studies on management foreword have considered corpus analysis tools in their procedure of analysis. Accordingly, the present study is aimed to bridge the gap in previous studies by describing the genre structure of management forewords. To that aim, a qualitative genre analysis study was conducted on 64 samples of management forewords of Asian companies using AntConc software. The analysis revealed six moves and nineteen move-strategy combinations. Most of the identified moves and strategies were also identified in previous move analysis studies on management forewords and other types of business reports and hence verified. The proposed move analysis model defined move boundaries and provided the most frequent words and verbs that represent each move. Additionally, the proposed moves consist of predictable strategies which are bound to their moves and do not appear within the boundary of more than one move. The findings of the present study could be useful for ESP practitioners as teaching material and raise awareness among business ESP students about the genre conventions of this genre.

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Section: Preliminary Analysismentioning

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Exploring the Macrostructure of Management Forewords of Corporate Annual Reports

Mobasher

Ali

2014

IJALEL

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“…The need to conduct such a study is also heightened by the lack of studies involving financial institutions in countries where English is a second language (L2) (Mobasher et al, 2013) and the scarcity of genre studies on RMR. The main objective of the present study is to uncover the rhetorical moves of risk management reporting by utilising genre analysis.…”

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Genre Analysis of Risk Management Reports by an Islamic Financial Institution in Malaysia

Aziz

Abas

Yusob

et al. 2022

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Risk management report (RMR) has become an important section for a bank's annual reports as it has been used to inform the stakeholders and the public of its stability. Nevertheless, most studies on risk management have yet to place much emphasis on language use nor move-step structure employed in the report since more attention is given to the risks faced by the institutions and how they are solved. This preliminary study aims to explore the move-step structure of risk management reporting in the RMR. To achieve this aim, genre analysis was utilised as a method to investigate how language was used in specific contexts to achieve their communicative purposes. Five RMR of an Islamic bank operating in Malaysia were obtained from its official website and analysed for their communicative content as demonstrated by the move-step constructs. The findings revealed that the RMR adhered to five moves. The findings provide an insight into how an Islamic financial institution's reputation is constructed through the appropriations of the textual conventions in the reports. The present study will benefit researchers and readers of RMR.

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“…Other than that, recent non-linguistic based studies (Pelikanova, 2019;Vithana, et al, 2019;Myskova & Hajek, 2019;Parshakov & Shakina, 2020;Dang, et al, 2020;Surdu, et al, 2020) have also examined the CAR and its sub-genres. A sizeable review of studies are also present on different aspects of CARs (Jianguo, 2012;Mobasher, et al, 2013;Wang, 2016;Ali & Isa, 2018). However, the detailed review of CARs mainly on the rhetorical structure and linguistic features have received minimal attention.…”

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A Review on the Rhetorical Structure and Linguistic Features of Corporate Annual Reports

Hussain¹,

Ali²,

Kasim³

et al. 2020

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Corporate annual report (CAR) is a communicative genre written by specialists in corporate companies. Over time, many linguistic studies have been conducted on this genre from various perspectives. This review paper critically examines studies on CARS, specifically on the rhetorical structure and linguistic features used in the genre. Based on the major findings of the studies reviewed in this paper, it can be argued that the writers of this professional discourse embellish the companies' reputation with frequent usage of positive language features and minimal negative aspects. In addition, corporations claim credit and responsibility for positive events but in the case of negative events, responsibility is evaded. Finally, CARs are essentially reporting genres and structurally different from other promotional genres due to intentionally inter-discursive appropriations that are practiced in order to report and promote the companies.

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Review of Studies on Corporate Annual Reports During 1990-2012

Cited by 7 publications

References 28 publications

Exploring the Macrostructure of Management Forewords of Corporate Annual Reports

Exploring the Macrostructure of Management Forewords of Corporate Annual Reports

Genre Analysis of Risk Management Reports by an Islamic Financial Institution in Malaysia

A Review on the Rhetorical Structure and Linguistic Features of Corporate Annual Reports

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