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Publication details [#13703]
Jacobs, Geert. 1995. Organization in Institutional Discourse: Putting Press Releases on a Proper Footing. In Wårvik, Brita, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Risto Hiltunen, eds. Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. (Anglicana Turkuensia 15). University of Turku. pp. 301–307.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Person as a subject
Annotation
Drawing from corpus-based research on the 'discourse of corporate disclosure', the author investigates the audience-directedness of press releases, suggesting that the genre's special brand of divided illocution is reflected in the institutional voices that characterize the production end, viz. in the use of impersonal identity forms and in the distribution of direct speech in the corpus.