Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World

  • 10h 58m
  • Roderick P. Hart
  • IGI Global
  • 2014

While personal variables like age, education, and gender are often thought to contribute to a persons distinctive speech pattern, corporate environments often develop its own way of communication which include larger scale variables like the economy and organizational traditions.

Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World provides insight into the verbiage of the corporate world and the influence of this environment for a person’s speech pattern, language, and terminology. This book will provide a guide for language researchers and business leaders alike so that they may find a way to communicate with everyone customers, colleagues, and CEOs effectively.

About the Author

Roderick P. Hart holds the Shivers Chair in Communication and is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of twelve books including Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us (Princeton, 2000) and Political Keywords: Using Language that Uses Us (Oxford, 2005). His most recent work (with Jay Childers and Colene Lind) is Political Tone: How Leaders Talk Why (Chicago, 2013). He is the creator of DICTION: The Text-Analysis Program.

In this Book

  • Fund Manager Overconfidence and Investment Narratives
  • Entrepreneurial Rhetoric and Business Plan Funding
  • Measuring the Tone of Accounting and Financial Narrative
  • The Impact of CEO Charismatic Rhetoric on Firm Performance
  • Exploring Signs of Hubris in CEO Language
  • Image Restoration and the Management of Reputation
  • Linguistic Certainty in Managerial Announcements
  • A Review of Textual Analysis in Economics and Finance
  • Optimal Portfolio Construction Using Qualitative and Quantitative Signals
  • Managerial Disclosures and Corporate Control
  • Corporate Persona and Optimistic Language in Annual Reports
  • Executives' Use of Emotional Language and Investor Reactions
  • Environmental Disclosures and Impression Management
  • Negotiating Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Disclosure Alignment and Transparency Signaling in CSR Reports
  • The Content of IMF Staff Reports for Euro Area Countries
  • The Global Financial Crisis and Central Bank Speak
  • Fraud Detection and Corporate Filings
  • From Words to Integers and Beyond in Corporate Life
  • Reliability and Validity in Automated Content Analysis
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