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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
Sat Mar 30 2024
Journal Name
Nasaq Journal
الفن والأنعكاس الذاتي في قصيدة جون آشبيري "صورة شخصية في مرآة محدبة"
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جهن آشبيري ىه شاعر ما بعد الحداثة كتب قريدة " صهرة شخرية في مرآة محدبة " في عام .3791 يعد الفن والتأمل الذاتي عنررين ميمين في األدب ، كما تم تقديمو في قريدة آشبيري ، وتبين أن نيجو النقدي تجاه الفن والتأمل الذاتي كان مركز جذب من عقهل ما بعد الحداثة خالل عرره ، الذي انخرط في نقد عمل آشبيري بدبب طبيعتو المربكة أو كتابتو. إحدى سمات شعراء ما بعد الحداثة ىي انخراطيم في االنعكاسية الذاتية والتناص. من خالل ىذه العناصر ، ينقل

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Publication Date
Mon Jan 07 2013
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
المشاركة الفاعلة لمديري الأقسام في المديريات العامة للتربية في عملية صنع القرار
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     The Decision Making Process (DMP) is considered the vital from the point of view intellectuals.  That is because of its effect on performance and the level of productivity of the workers in any organization. In the educational organization in particular, it plays a pivotal role in the technical, managerial and supervision fields.  In addition to the productivity there was a great effect on the moral of the workers in all part of the organization, self respect and the problem solving approach to all work difficulties and challenges.  All that leads to a better working environment where goals are achieved in a collaborative effort.

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Publication Date
Wed Dec 20 2023
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
الشعر في كتاب )المسلمون في االندلس ( للمستشرق دوزي شعر عصر الطوائف انموذجا
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Poetry occupied a prestigious position for the rulers in AlAndalus, especially the state of the sects in which the kings, who
were originally poets, ruled. This is why they made the poets
close to them, and their court was never empty of them, they
even specified a day in which valuable gifts were given to them.
Poems of praise and love were written,

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Publication Date
Sun Dec 02 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
التذكير التذكير و التأنيث في العامية العراقية وعلاقتها بالفصحى دراسة في الموروث
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The phenomenon of Masculine and feminine is one of the important grammatical studies because of their influence on the sentence structure, words come either masculine and feminine type when using one of them in place of the other , this displacement might cause distribution in the sentence itself because,

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Publication Date
Wed Nov 01 2000
Journal Name
مجلة العلوم الاقتصادية والإدارية
تأثير الخداع التسويقي في السمعة التنظيمية / بحث تطبيقي في صيدليات محافظة بغداد
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تأثير الخداع التسويقي في السمعة التنظيمية / بحث تطبيقي في صيدليات محافظة بغداد

Publication Date
Mon Jun 01 2015
Journal Name
Journal Of Economics And Administrative Sciences
Impact of non-current assets impairment reporting on certain financial indicators application on Al-Mansour Pharmaceuticals- a private corporation
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   This research deals with the financial reporting for non-current assets impairment from the viewpoint of international accounting standards, particularly IAS 36 "Impairment of non-current assets." The research problems focus on the presence of internal and external indicators on impairment of non-current assets in many of companies listed in Iraqi stock exchange. So it is required to apply IAS 36 to reporting for the impairment loss of assets since this impairment impact certain financial indicators. These indicators help users in their decision-making and forecasting future financial situation and the ability of the company to achieve future profits or maintain current profits. The research aims to shedding lig

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Publication Date
Fri Feb 08 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
Digital Literacy at The University
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The revolution of technology in the 21st century has changed radically the
climate of opinion concerning second language education. In order to excel in
today’s world, teachers and learners need to adopt new roles and be equipped with
new skills and competencies that go beyond the basic ones of listening, speaking,
reading, and writing; skills that cannot be gained if teachers teach mere academic
subjects, and students are evaluated on how well they have learnt the minute sub
skills in those content areas.
This session will touch upon several skills which may be considered the
new basics of the 21st century. Among these skills are: autonomy, active learning,
critical thinking, cooperative learning, and digita

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Publication Date
Sat Feb 21 2026
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Languages
الاحتجاج في الادب العبري
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Publication Date
Wed Feb 06 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
الحرب الاھلیة في سیرالیون
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The civil war in Seralion is considered as complex model of internal
conflicts in Africa because link to crises have relation to political, economical ,
social and cultural conditions, which were infected by disability and paralysis
in function performance, and what have effect on Seralion's relation
internationally or regionally.
In this research discussed three parts, the first is the factors of rise civil
war in Seralion , the second indicated the effected determiners in civil war in
Seralion , the third shown the factors of put end to civil war in Seralion .
The research concluded to significant reality that civil war in Seralion had
strategic effects on regional or international relations .

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Publication Date
Thu Mar 01 2007
Journal Name
Journal Of Accounting And Financial Studies ( Jafs )
إستراتيجية الرقابة في العراق
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تحتل الرقابة المالية والإدارية أهمية كبيرة في عمل المؤسسات وتمثل المرحلة الإشرافية فيها وتُعد من أهم عناصر العملية الإدارية، ويأتي دور الأجهزة الرقابية لضمان تقديم الخدمات للمواطنين، بأسرع وقت، وبأقل جهد وتكلفة. واعتمدت الدولة العراقية منذ تأسيسها على جهاز رقابي خارجي واحد هو ديوان مراقب الحسابات العام المؤسس بالقانون رقم (17) لعام 1927 الذي كان يمارس أعمال الرقابة والتدقيق المالي والحسابي للمصروفات والإير

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