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Corporate communications: accounting, linguistics and semiotics

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Abstract

Corporations tend to make many communications about their activities, some of which are required by law and others of which are informative. Needless to say, these corporations wish to make their activities appear in the best possible light. They are therefore carefully crafted to this effect. It is therefore necessary to interpret these corporate communications to get behind the actual words and data reported in order to understand actual implications. Although technical expertise is required to understand the actual financial information being provided, these are always surrounded by words, pictures etc. and this chapter is intended to show how an understanding of appropriate linguistic concepts and the basics of semiotics enables a much fuller understanding of what is being communicated, regardless of the intentions of the corporate representatives creating the communication.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 60-72 (13 pages)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 14/09/2023

Publication status

Published - 14/09/2023

Publisher

Routledge, United States, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9781032126340

ISBN (Electronic)

9781000919547

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/626907
  • Scopus: 85173349673

Host publication title

The Routledge Companion to the Future of Management Research

Host publication editors

  • David Crowther
  • Shahla Seifi

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