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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
Tue Dec 28 2021
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
ام المؤمنين ام سلمة ودورها في رواية الحديث النبوي
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    There was a huge role in the history of a muslim woman and several books have mentioned that politically or in religion and even scientifically and socially which leaded a lot of women to look up to           these women who helped in keeping the religion just in the right form for other generations

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Publication Date
Thu Sep 30 2021
Journal Name
College Of Islamic Sciences
Islam's position on freedom according to John Stuart Mill
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The issue of freedom is the most prominent and distinctive issue of Western thought, which it reached after a long struggle. The English thinker John Stuart Mill is considered the most prominent Western thinker who elaborated on the issue of freedom, until his ideas on the issue of freedom became the semi-final formula for issues of freedom in Western thought, which revolve in their entirety on The individual has complete freedom as long as it does not harm others, and this freedom is controlled by law.

And if the freedoms he offered were not considered an achievement in Western thought; Freedom in Islam is a central and fundamental issue, and the details of freedoms in Islam have not been accomplished by anyone, but rather came

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Publication Date
Sun Nov 04 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
الشيخ الشيخ علي خان زنكنة واصلاحاته الداخلية في ايران
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                                                                                                          Shakh Ali Khan Zangna was a minister of a big state in terms of its wide lan

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Publication Date
Sun Dec 02 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
القبائل الآمورية ودورها التأريخي في بلاد الرافدين وبلاد الشام
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The research titles “Ammorrite tribes and their historical role in Mesopotamia and Levant” deals with tribe structure, nomination, political and cultural roles of these tribes in Mesopotamia and Levant, as it terminate Sumerian presence in Iraq and changed historical course and contributed in changing population landmarks and started new bright era, in addition to admitting new beliefs, gods and laws, beside ruling principles which became tribal, i.e., dynasties instead of Sumerian rulings based on religion belief.

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Publication Date
Sun Jul 07 2013
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
العولمة الثقافية في القيم التربوية لطالبات قسم رياض الاطفال
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Seemed reflections of cultural globalization are clear on the values of communities those values that preserve each community privacy, so that became members of these communities lack the ability to distinguish clearly between what is right and what is wrong and adoption of ideas and values imported from abroad, regardless of whether positive or negative. The aim of the research was to: - 1 - Detection of cultural globalization in the educational values for students kindergarten section. 2 - To identify the most prominent educational values (social, scientific, aesthetic, moral and spiritual) globalized culture. The current Aqtsralbges on: - Department of kindergarten students to study in the morning College for Girls, Baghdad University

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Publication Date
Sun Apr 06 2014
Journal Name
Journal Of Educational And Psychological Researches
مدى تقبل الأطفال لبيئتهم الصفية في الرياض الحكومية والأهلية
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The research aimed at measuring the degree to which the accept their class environment in governmental & civil Kindergartens &  it also aimed at knowing the differences between the dimensions of the measurement & the differences according to the kindergarten & class variables .

The researcher made a measurement for the class environment & it included five dimensions & the answering choices were three ( to a big extent , to some extent and no ) and after making sure that the measurement is usable , the researcher applied it on the sample which consisted of ( 212 )male & female children through the estimated answers of the teacher & the result was that there was an accep

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Publication Date
Sun Jul 03 2005
Journal Name
Political Sciences Journal
البنية الاقتصادية الاجتماعية للادارة الجديدة في الولايات المتحدة الامريكية
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البنية الاقتصادية الاجتماعية للادارة الجديدة في الولايات المتحدة الامريكية

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Publication Date
Sun Mar 01 2026
Journal Name
Kufa Journal Physical Education Sciences
دور الاعداد التكنلوجي للطالبات في التفاعل مع التعليم الالكتروني
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Publication Date
Wed Mar 30 2022
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
الجوانب السياسية في أفعال وأقوال الخلفاء الراشدين عند الاحتضار
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    as important aspects emerged related to the management of the caliphate and how it was transferred, and the clarification of the political trends and transformations at the end of their lives. In addition, how the Rightly Guided

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Publication Date
Tue Jun 01 2021
Journal Name
مجلة جامعة الامام جعفر الصادق للدراسات القانونية
الاحكام الجديدة للشركة القابضة في القانون العراقي (دراسة مقارنة)
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عرفت النظم القانونية انواعا مختلفة من الشركات اذ تعتبر الشركة الوعاء القانوني الاكثر ملائمة لغرض توظيف اموال المستثمرين في مشاريع ذات اهمية والذي يحقق نفا لاصحاب رؤوس الاموال المستثمرة فضلا عن اثرها البالغ على اقتصاد الدول وقد كان للشركة القابضة نصيب من هذا الاهتمام منذ القدم لدى العديد من الدول ووضعت لها احكاما تفصيلية تتناسب مع الاهمية التي يحظى بها هذا النوع من الشركات كونها تجمع لعدة شركات فرعية تسيطر ع

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