| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Comprehensibility and comprehensiveness of financial analysts' reports |
| Authors: | Whitehouse, Marlies Perrin, Daniel |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.007 |
| Published in: | Studies in Communication Sciences |
| Editors of the parent work: | Rocci, A. Palmieri, R. Gautier, L. |
| Volume(Issue): | 15 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page(s): | 111 |
| Pages to: | 119 |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Seimso |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Amsterdam |
| ISSN: | 1424-4896 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject (DDC): | 332: Financial economics 400: Language, linguistics |
| Abstract: | Financial analysts and their texts play a key role in the financial community. Despite their importance, both the analysts as writers and the texts themselves are widely under-researched, as a review of the literature in the field reveals. This is the gap that our large research project on financial analysts’ written communication aims to close. Based on a context-annotated corpus of roughly 1500 financial analysts’ company reviews (in German, English, and Japanese), we investigate the cultural, organizational, and individual variety of the texts’ communicative potential for investors. The final goal of the entire research project is to identify critical situations and situative good practices of cross-disciplinary communication in the financial community. In the present paper, we focus on one specific genre, a small qualitative sample, a product-only approach, and on one specific research question from the financial communication project: why do equity analysts’ company updates for investors fail to reach their communicative potential? We start by systematically contextualizing the genre in the light of the research question (Section 1). Based on a qualitative English sub-corpus (Section 2), we then explain how we used pragmatic text analysis to investigate the texts’ comprehensibility and comprehensiveness in cross-disciplinary communication (Section 3). The results suggest that these texts bear the risk of partial communicative failure (Section 4) and what actions can improve their communicative potential (Section 5). |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/5032 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Whitehouse, M., & Perrin, D. (2015). Comprehensibility and comprehensiveness of financial analysts’ reports. Studies in Communication Sciences, 15(1), 111–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.007
Whitehouse, M. and Perrin, D. (2015) ‘Comprehensibility and comprehensiveness of financial analysts” reports’, Studies in Communication Sciences. Edited by A. Rocci, R. Palmieri, and L. Gautier, 15(1), pp. 111–119. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.007.
M. Whitehouse and D. Perrin, “Comprehensibility and comprehensiveness of financial analysts’ reports,” Studies in Communication Sciences, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 111–119, 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.007.
WHITEHOUSE, Marlies und Daniel PERRIN, 2015. Comprehensibility and comprehensiveness of financial analysts‘ reports. A. ROCCI, R. PALMIERI und L. GAUTIER (Hrsg.), Studies in Communication Sciences. 2015. Bd. 15, Nr. 1, S. 111–119. DOI 10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.007
Whitehouse, Marlies, and Daniel Perrin. 2015. “Comprehensibility and Comprehensiveness of Financial Analysts’ Reports.” Edited by A. Rocci, R. Palmieri, and L. Gautier. Studies in Communication Sciences 15 (1): 111–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.007.
Whitehouse, Marlies, and Daniel Perrin. “Comprehensibility and Comprehensiveness of Financial Analysts’ Reports.” Studies in Communication Sciences, edited by A. Rocci et al., vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 111–19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.007.
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