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McLaren-Hankin, Yvonne. 2008. 'We expect to report on significant progress in our product pipeline in the coming year': hedging forward-looking statements in corporate press releases. Discourse Studies 10 (5) : 635–654.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hedge | organization | press release | statement2 - stating

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores 'forward-looking statements' in a corpus of corporate press releases, focusing especially on the hedging mechanisms involved.