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Means of Arguments in Bank's Annual Reports
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In line with the most recent trends in genre analysis (Swales, 1990; Bahatia,
1993) and discourse studies on business communication (Dudley-Evans and St.
John, 1998;Bargiela-Chiappini, F. and C. Nickerson, 1999, the article focuses on a
particular financial genre, Bank's Annual Reports (ARs). More in detail, in contrast
in widespread claim about the purely financial and informative nature of ARs,
addressing experts only, this paper aims at illustrating in accordance with Bexley
and Hynes (2003), and Burrough's (1986) considerations, that those reports
endeavour to promote the company image and to leave a positive impression on
readers. Generally speaking, companies communicate because they exist: they have
a name, headquarters, offices, a logotype, and provide cosumers with products and
services that help people to come closer to the company's reality (Brioschi,
1990:51). However, another type of communication exists, this of argumentation: it
is essential to inform the public about the company's activity, to charge its mind
(Cantoni, Di Blas, 2002) and to it act in a certain way. Thus, argumentation aims at
convincing the counterpart that a thesis should (not) be accepted by using
reasonable arguments that impress the hearer/ reader. More specifically,
argumentation can be found in an extremely important economic and financial text:
the ARs. These are considered comprehensible not only to experts but also the
layman: they develop arguments that are within everyone's reach; they use plain
language and effective stylistic devices in order to be readable, to delight and
convince the public (Mignini, 2005:1).
(Some research so far has been based on the definition as well as the content
analysis of ARs, and on their writing's techniques and strategies, but few had taken
into account their argumentative stylistic features and discursive (in the sense of
other-than-purely-financial) sections.
There has been not much research focusing on argumentation in the economic
and financial world up-to-now; in this paper the researcher examines how
argumentation is carried on in banks ARs, what the most exploited topics are, and
how they are arranged to win the public over. A glance at the textual structure is
given first so as to have an idea about how the readers are introduced into the bank's
world. Then, an analysis of the most common topics and the way they are usually
presented (their argument) is provided: examples are also given in order to clarify
the content. 

The corpus of material gathered for the analysis includes four Bank's ARs. All
the selected ARs are published on the web between 2003 and 2006 by the following
prestigious big banks: Deutsche bank (2003), Bank of England Annual Report
(2004), Raiffeisen Centrobank (2005), and Bank of America (2006).

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Publication Date
Wed Aug 01 2018
Journal Name
Journal Of Economics And Administrative Sciences
(( Technology's role Time driver Activity-based costing at Provide of information for economic units for customer profitability analysis ))
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  The economic units always sought to maintain its market position and Trchinh the technology management and modern methods that will support success factors .vdila about it has become a customer and one profitability analysis of the most practical way benefit of economic units as modern management focus their attention on achieving this satisfaction, as the customers make up the axis of the success of every organization and that there are many government units aiming to profit directs attention to customers and the number of these units increased continuously. The administration used the customer profitability analysis in order to obtain information to assist in making and decision-making process. How to use modern tec

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Publication Date
Sun Dec 02 2007
Journal Name
Political Sciences Journal
الحول الديمقراطي في بنغلادش
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التحول الديمقراطي في بنغلادش

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Publication Date
Thu Feb 07 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
الأعراب في العصر الاموي
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The islamic caliphate was against the Aarab who became Muslims and
stayed in their desert and their companies didn’t share with the Muslims to
spread Islam by Al-Jihad. The Quran attacked them in many verses except
the Aarab who accepted when the prophet called them for Al-Jihad.
The Aarab in the ummayad period were in three categories :
1. The aarab who lived in the desert ,the islamic society was very revenge
towards them. The caliphate did not gave them Al-Ataa so they were in
bad situation
2. Those who lived in the country side . they were very trouble to the
trade.
3. The third lived in the cities and worked in the trade, Dawawin and in the
administration.
The Aarab of cities some of them associ

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Publication Date
Sun Jul 02 2006
Journal Name
Political Sciences Journal
التعددية السياسية في السنغال
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التعددية السياسية في السنغال

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Publication Date
Sun Jan 01 2006
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Languages (jcl)
El realismo del personaje de Lazarillo de Tormes por el tratado primero "cuenta Lazaro su vida y cuyo hijo fue"
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El Lázarillo señala a fines del reinado del emperador, el comienzo de un
nuevo género en la literatura castellana. A través de sus páginas nos adentró en un
mundo de pobreza, de
hambre secular, de hipocresía, y rodeado de problemas.
Lázaro cuenta en primera persona sus aventuras comenzando por su nacimiento, en
una aceña de las riberas del río Tormes. Condenando su padre como ladrón y, su
madre se entrega al mas vil morisco - cuya conducta deja también que desea –
haber pasado hambre y le entrega, siendo todavía un niño, a un ciego de alma ruin
para que, acompañándole, se gana la vida. Para aplacar el hambre, pues el ciego le
daba poco de comer, el muchacho le hace objeto, de repetidas tretas.

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Publication Date
Wed Jan 27 2016
Journal Name
المجلة السياسية والدولية
مقدمة في البحث العلمي
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دراسة أصول البحث العلمي ومناهجه وتطبيقاته في العلوم الإنسانية

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Mon Sep 01 2025
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Languages
الاحتجاج في الادب العبري
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Publication Date
Mon Sep 01 2025
Journal Name
نسق
الحارس في بلاد الرافدين
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كثيرة هي المهن في بلاد الرافدين، وهذه ظهرت للحاجة لها، واسهمت هذه المهن في تطور المجتمع والمحافظة عليه، مثال ذلك مِهنة الحارس، والذي كان عنواناً لبحثنا هذا، مُحاولين في تسليط الضوء على هذه المِهنة وأنواعها واِنتشارها على مُجمل النشاطات في بلاد الرافدين وإسهاماتها في الحِفاظ على الأمن والاِستقرار سواء كان الاِجتماعي أو الاِقتصادي على اِختلافه التجاري البرِّي والبحري، وعلى الزراعة والصِّناعة، وعلى مفاصل أ

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Publication Date
Fri Jan 04 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of Planner And Development
الملاكات التخطيطية في العراق
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Publication Date
Sun Aug 30 2020
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
صناعة المخطوط في العراق
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The Arab heritage is considered one of the treasures of the noble human civilizations, as it is a deep-rooted heritage, when the dawn of Islam dawned on the Arabian Peninsula, and when its conquests spanned,

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