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Abstracts - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

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Paper PresentationsADEGBOYE ADEYANJU, UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA, NIGERIANEGOTIATING DIFFERENCES: LANGUAGE, CORPORATE IDEOLOGY AND CULTURE INNIGERIAN CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORTS: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSISThis study is a linguistic investigation of Nigerian Corporate annual reports using theSystemic Functional Linguistics theory, unarguably one of the most explicit accountsof language offered in history. Ten reports were randomly selected from the 25banks in Nigeria and the reports were examined for language, style and rhetorical<strong>de</strong>vices used in or<strong>de</strong>r to i<strong>de</strong>ntify the different corporate i<strong>de</strong>ologies and culturesbehind their constructions. Study revealed that annual reports have hid<strong>de</strong>ni<strong>de</strong>ological and cultural meanings reinforcing certain interests of thosecorporations’ chief executives while often the sharehol<strong>de</strong>rs interests areconsistently un<strong>de</strong>rmined. This research has three main aims: a) to investigate thepatterns of construction ma<strong>de</strong> in the processing of language of Corporate annualreports,(b) to also <strong>de</strong>monstrate that language use in annual reports is complexlymotivated by such extra-linguistic factors as socio-economic and psychologicalconsi<strong>de</strong>rations to cause corporate report-audience to respond in a <strong>de</strong>liberatelypre<strong>de</strong>termined manner, (c) attempts would be ma<strong>de</strong> to <strong>de</strong>scribe the recurringchoices reflecting corporate i<strong>de</strong>ology and culture prevalent in such language. Wehope to contribute to the continuing discourse on ‘choice’ and its theorization by<strong>de</strong>monstrating that linguistic meaning is <strong>de</strong>liberately constructed and consciouslymanipulated in business text.Key-Words: Negotiation, corporate i<strong>de</strong>ology and culture, language use, systemic linguistics,socio-economic and psychological consi<strong>de</strong>rationsPAPER SESSION 5B - ROOM 2 - WEDNESDAY, 27 JULYISFC38 Book of <strong>Abstracts</strong> Page 13 Lisbon, July 2011

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