Local grammars of phraseologies of movement in financial English  

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Xin Sui, Susie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 10 no. Special issues (2014), page 72-100.
Topik: local grammar; phraseology; movement; corporate annual report
Fulltext: 73-101.pdf (376.03KB)

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By introducing a study of the local grammars of phraseologies of movement in financial English, this paper aims to illustrate the value of the study of local grammar of phraseologies in the description of specific language patterns or specific kinds of language use and the procedure for describing local grammars. In financial settings, the language of movement is closely related to risks and returns, and therefore of great importance. The main study sets out to describe and compare the language of four types of movement (upward movement, downward movement, no movement, and unspecified movement) across five types of discourses in corporate annual reports. Using ConcGram 1.0, the corpus-driven study analysed word co-occurrences specific to phraseologies related to movement in the 1.5-million word Corpus of Company Annual Reports (CCAR) composed of 18 annual reports from Hang Seng Index constituent companies in Hong Kong. The top five phraseologies in each movement category in each subcorpus of discourse are studied for language description and comparison. The paper reports on the findings related to the local grammar of a two-word concgram increase/HK$ in the subcorpus of public relations discourse in the CCAR. It also describes implications for further research and teaching and learning in ESP and professional communication.

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