Corporate Argumentation in Takeover Bids
Rudi Palmieri
[Argumentation in Context, 8] 2014. xii, 274 pp.
Rudi Palmieri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rudi Palmieri plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2017. Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen (Eds.) (2015). Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice. Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:2, pp. 247–253
Review
2017. Practical reasoning in corporate communication with multiple audiences. Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:2, pp. 167–192
Corporate strategic communication has to be designed by considering multiple audiences of stakeholders. In this paper, we study the connection between the audience structure of corporate messages and the structure of the practical argumentation advanced to persuasively justify a business proposal.… read more | Article
2016. Predictions in economic-financial news: Author’s stance and argumentative loci. Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere, Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 48–73
Compared to other domains of media discourse, economic-financial news contain a considerable amount of speech acts regarding future events, in particular predictions. This can be explained by their specific institutional context, financial markets, where investors constantly seek to single out gain… read more | Article
2015. Review of Camiciottoli (2013): Rhetoric in Financial Discourse. A Linguistic Analysis of ICT-mediated Disclosure Genres. Journal of Argumentation in Context 4:3, pp. 336–342
Review
2014. Suspicion as an argumentative move: Semantic analysis of a pivotal concept in banks’ anti-money laundering argumentative activities. Journal of Argumentation in Context 3:3, pp. 287–321
In order to comply with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws, financial intermediaries are being engaged with unprecedented communicative activities, mainly oriented at detecting suspicious activities which must be reported to the Financial Intelligence Unit. The polysemous notion of ‘suspicion’ is… read more | Article
2012. Chapter 20. The diversifying of contextual constraints and argumentative strategies in friendly and hostile takeover bids. Exploring Argumentative Contexts, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 341–376
This paper investigates how the argumentative situation affects arguers’ strategic maneuvering in a financial context, devoting particular attention to the situational characteristics at the confrontational level. To this purpose, this study considers takeover bids, a class of financial activities… read more | Article