| Cross-cultural Genre Analysis: Investigating Chinese, Italian and English CSR reports Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Humanities; Language & Literature; Cultural Studies; Business Management and Accounting; Language & Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language and Communication; Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics; Applied Linguistics; This unique monograph provides a theoretical and methodological account on how to do cross-cultural genre analysis with the aids of corpus tools. Cross-cultural genre analysis investigates how discourse communities from different cultural backgrounds use language to realize a particular genre. It can shed light on genre nature as well as cultural specificities. The book suggests five specific approaches in doing cross-cultural genre analysis: Investigating genre context; Approaching genre complexity; Exploring genre nature; Exploring culture specificity; and Focusing on specific communicative functions. Each of these approaches is illustrated and demonstrated in a specific chapter with practical analyses of the genre of CSR reports. Danni Yu is an associate professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Her research interests include genre analysis, corpus-based studies, and cross-cultural studies (with a focus on Chinese, Italian and English discourses). Her profile can be found on her Research Gate account: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danni-Yu-3. |