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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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Wed Mar 01 2023
Journal Name
Baghdad Science Journal
On the Split Mersenne and Mersenne-Lucas Hybrid Quaternions
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In this communication, introduce the split Mersenne and Mersenne-Lucas hybrid quaternions, also obtaining generating functions and Binet formulas for these hybrid quaternions and investigating some properties among them.

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Publication Date
Wed Mar 23 2022
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
Measurement of Appreciation of Clothes of University’s Students
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Clothes are considered a means of aesthetic and artistic expression that help to hide the flaws of the body and highlight its merits , it has importance in people's lives as it reflects the individual's idea of himself and his personality. Whereas  the appreciation  in clothing  is a reflection of a person's sense of artistic components and the application of this sense to the clothes of his choice. Regarding the differences in clothing tastes by the university students according to the following variables (gender, specialization, stage of study,  age, monthly income), the current research is considered quantitative descriptive research that is concerned with studying a phenomenon that exists in reality, measuring it

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Publication Date
Thu May 18 2023
Journal Name
Journal Of Engineering
Prediction of Coefficient of Permeability of Unsaturated Soil
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A simple technique is proposed in this paper for estimating the coefficient of permeability of an unsaturated soil based on physical properties of soils that include grain size analysis, degree of saturation or water content, and porosity of the soil. The proposed method requires the soil-water characteristic curve for the prediction of the coefficient of permeability as most of the conventional methods. A procedure is proposed to define the hydraulic conductivity function from the soil water characteristic curve which is measured by the filter paper method. Fitting methods are applied through the program (SoilVision), after indentifying the basic properties of the soil such as Attereberg limits, specific gravity, void ratio, porosity, d

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Publication Date
Sun Jan 03 2016
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
مشكلات تدريسيي ومحاضري المواد التربوية والنفسية والاجتماعية في الكليات الاختصاص في جامعة بغداد للعام الدراسي 2013/ 2014 من وجهة نظرهم وطلبتهم
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    Sought researcher to try to detect the type and size of the problems detected in or discovered or exposed or trying to find solutions to them as teachers and lecturers who are studying the educational, psychological and social articles in college studying these materials, whether the jurisdiction or extra materials, and clarified language definitions and terminology for search terms, indicating the importance of research into the problem of these either for teachers or for their students, and prepared a questionnaire organization questions open to get a clear responses and the Organization of the kind of problems faced by the lecturers and their students who are dealing with the educational, ps

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Publication Date
Thu Sep 30 2021
Journal Name
م Tikrit Journal Of A Dministrative And Economics Sciences
الجانب المظلم للمساءلة وتأثييره على سلوكيات الاداء المهني)دراسة تحليلةلاراء عينة من المحاسبين والمدقيقن الداخليين في المؤسسات الحكومية في محافظة المثنى)
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Wed Dec 30 2015
Journal Name
College Of Islamic Sciences
الرواة الذين حكم البخاري بضعفيم في تارخيه الكبري ًالضعفاء الصغري وقواهم ابو حاتم فيما رواه عنه ابنه في كتابه الجرح والتعديل
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Narrators who ruled Bukhari weak
In its great history, the small weak
And their strength Abu Hatim narrated by his son in his book wound and amendment

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Publication Date
Sat Jan 05 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of Planner And Development
دور وحدة الجيرة في تشكيل المجمعات السكنية المستدامة في العراق منطقة الدراسة الميدانية مجمع 28 نيسان السكني ومجمع سبع ابكار السكني
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Publication Date
Thu Dec 01 2022
Journal Name
مجلة الجامعة العراقية
دور تقنية التكلفة المستهدفة ونظام التكاليف على اساس الانشطة الموجه بالوقت في تخفيض التكاليف بحث تطبيقي في الشركة العامة للصناعات الجلدية
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تواجه الوحدات الاقتصادية في العراق منافسة قوية بسبب مشكلات خاصة بإرتفاع الاسعار وارتفاع تكاليف الانتاج وضعف الاهتمام بدراسة السوق وغيرها من المشاكل ، فضلاً عن استخدام نظام التكاليف التقليدي الذي لا يوفر معلومات ملائمة لقرارات التسعير الامر الذي يتطلب دراسة وتحليل تلك المشكلات ومعالجتها بالاعتماد على تقنيات حديثة بما يمكنها من المنافسة ولهذا جاء هذا البحث والذي يعتبر من المداخل الحديثة لتخفيض التكاليف وم

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Sun Jun 30 2024
Journal Name
مجلة التراث العلمي العربي
التنبيه على ما في تحقيق محمد علي الصابوني لـ ( فتح الرحمن بكشف ما يلتبس في القرآن ) من تغيير وسقط ووهم وتحريف
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(فتح الرحمن بكشف ما يلتبس في القرآن ) لزكريا الأنصاري (ت 926 هـ ) مصنَّف مهم تبارت فيه علوم العربية لفكّ ما يثيره ظاهر آيات قرآنية من لبس لدى المتلقي ، فكان للبلاغة السطوة في ذلك ، ولأهميته طبع طبعات كثيرة ، خمس منها بتحقيق محمد علي الصابوني ، وهو التحقيق المهمين الشائع ، غيرأنه لم يستوفِ الأسلوب العلمي في اخراج النصوص، إذ بدت فيه مزالق كثيرة بينَ تغيير وسقط ووهم وتحريف وتصحيف ودمج مما استنهض فكرة هذا البحث ، للتنب

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Publication Date
Thu Feb 19 2015
Journal Name
مجلة ديالى للعلوم الزراعية
دراسة بعض المؤشرات الفنية لنوعين من الباذرات مع نظم الحراثة واثرهم في انتاج الحاصل الأخضر للشعير صنف سمير في الترب الجبسية
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