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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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Tue Jan 08 2019
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
عناصر دار الإسلام في صدرالإسلام وخلافة الأمويين
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Fri Oct 28 2022
Journal Name
Political Sciences Journal
جدلية الحرية والقانون في فكر فردريك هيجل
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Western political philosophy is one of the philosophies that dealt with many ideas and proposals that include concepts born in ancient times, where Greek philosophy represents the basic roots of the development of political thought and the study of political phenomena and a starting point for political thought, and if the matter is completed with the Romans, and schools of thought that represented a model for building the state And up to the modern era, the absolute and the relative were the subject of discussion by most philosophers, the transition of thought was with Descartes, and the intellectual transformation from the absolute to the relative was with Nietzsche, and the basic root of all of that is represented by the German philoso

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Sun Dec 02 2007
Journal Name
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اشكالية النظرية في العلوم السياسية : مساهمة اولية
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Wed May 21 2025
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دور المراكز البحثية في دعم القضايا الأجتماعية
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تناول هذا البحث الدور الحيوي الذي تؤديه المراكز البحثية في دعم القضايا الاجتماعية، مع التركيز على مركز دراسات المرأة في جامعة بغداد كنموذج تطبيقي. يوضح الباحث أن هذه المراكز لا تقتصر على إنتاج المعرفة النظرية، بل تسهم بشكل مباشر في معالجة التحديات المجتمعية، من خلال تقديم رؤى تحليلية ومقترحات عملية لصناع القرار. كما ويسلط الضوء على مساهمة مركز دراسات المرأة في تعزيز المشاركة السياسية للمرأة العراقية، خاصة

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Mon Nov 19 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
المفاضلة المفاضلة بين الرجل والمرأة في الإسلام
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            Humans have considerations of gender male and female, and many of them have preferential male versus female, and became such considerations solid in the minds of some of the intellectuals, public and most of the people; as a fact for granted, and that's what get them to prefer of boys over females.

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Thu Jul 29 2021
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
هاشم الخطاط وجهوده في الخط العربي الاسلامي
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 The line is among a nation of civilized nations did not attain what Muslims took care

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Wed Dec 19 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
تاريخ تار يخ الزلازل في بلاد الشام
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Publication Date
Tue Jun 03 2003
Journal Name
Al-academy
الرؤية السايكلوجية وتطبيقاتها في مسرحية الشيخ والغانية
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Wed Jan 01 2014
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Languages (jcl)
سةرهةلَداني رِؤذنامةنووسيي كوردي و رِؤلَي لة ثةرةسةندني زمان و ئةدةبدا
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Tue Oct 05 2021
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Arab Science Heritage Journal
مظاهر الترف في الوظائف ابان العصر الفاطمي
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The Fatimids were arguing with the Abbasids in everything, even in the causes of civilization, and the Islamic moderization had matured,

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