| Annual reports increasingly become the communication tools to disclose to the public.As a method to promote the corporate,annual reports have lots of communicative purposes.Being a decisive role in the operation of the corporations,the corporate annual reports are paid more and more attention.Based on the genre theories of Swales and Bhatia,the writer has built a corpus of 50 pieces of corporate annual reports from Fortune 500,called CARs corpus.Simultaneously,a reference corpus from parts of Open American National Corpus(OANC)has been chosen to make a comparison,called OANCWS corpus.This thesis concentrates on the move structure,the generic features of the corporate annual reports,by combining the quantitative approach with qualitative approach together.Firstly,the lexical and grammatical features have been analyzed among these 50 samples of corporate annual reports by the quantitative method.Secondly,30 documents of annual reports have been selected randomly from 50 annual reporting texts to explore the textual idiosyncrasy,such as,the move structure,the frequencies of the pictures and graphs used in the annual reports.The generic features are interpreted with the help of software AntConc 3.44,CLAWS4 from three layers,the lexical level,the grammatical level and the textual level.The annual reports are of crucial significance to the corporate.Thus,the study is designed to investigate the annual reports with an excellent use of the genre theory and the corpus linguistics to strengthen the theoretical studies of genre analysis.Simultaneously,this can enrich the materials of annual documents so as to understand and use annual reports effectively.Also,it's helpful and practical to teach the annual report writing for business English students. |
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