A Comparative Study on Engagement Resources in American and Chinese CSR Reports

Autor/in	Pinying, Chen
Titel	A Comparative Study on Engagement Resources in American and Chinese CSR Reports
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 11 (2018) 11, S.122-135 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Computational Linguistics; Business English; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Corporations; Social Responsibility; Reports; Cross Cultural Studies; Foreign Countries; Employees; Language Usage; Discourse Analysis; Authors; Business Communication; China; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Business; English; English language; Wirtschaft; Englisch; Wirtschaftsenglisch; English as second language; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Unternehmen; Soziale Verantwortung; Abschlussbericht; Berichten; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Ausland; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Sprachgebrauch; Diskursanalyse; Author; Autor; Autorin; Unternehmenskommunikation; USA
Abstract	Based on Martin and White's (2005) heteroglossic engagement system of Appraisal Theory, adopting UAM Corpus Tool and Chi-Square test, this study aims to explore authorial stance and distinctive rhetorical strategies that have been employed to realize interpersonal meaning by the application of engagement resources in American and Chinese CSR reports. It can be concluded that all types of engagement resources are widely employed in both American and Chinese corpus, with contraction resources significantly different in two corpora. It also finds that American CSR reports employ each type of engagement markers equally, while Chinese CSR reports tend to highly use expansion resources to enhance authorial voice. Besides, American CSR reports employ contraction resources in a more diversified and flexible way than Chinese CSR reports writers do. Lastly, they are also different in acknowledging what kinds of external propositions as expansion resources. This study confirms that engagement system is an important tool to help CSR reports writers to align authorial voices with readers, thereby accomplishing promotional and persuasive purposes. It may give some implications to CSR report addressers, addressees, business English teaching and reading. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01