In this chapter, I analyse markers of engagement/disengagement used by company executives and financial analysts in two corpora of earnings conference calls that took place before the 2008 global financial crisis (Pre-crisis corpus), and in late 2009 when the crisis was still ongoing… read more
Earnings calls are financial reporting events organised by companies via teleconferencing as a format that allows management and financial analysts to interact on an interpersonal level. In this study, I analyse the relational dimension of earnings calls of European and Asian companies,… read more
This paper illustrates an application of grammatical tagging as a methodological tool for the investigation of small specialized corpora. A contrastive analysis was performed on two tagged corpora that represent genres used for the purpose of financial disclosure: spoken earnings presentations and… read more