Introduction to thematic section on text and discourse analysis in financial communication

During the last decade, financial communication texts – including corporate compulsory and voluntary disclosures, analysts’ recommendations, rating announcements, central banks’ reports and speeches, financial news stories and other media (e.g. blogs, forums) – have emerged as an increasingly important object of study in several different disciplines. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scoms.2015.04.002

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