The Use of Verbs in Banks’ Corporate Websites

Research on genre analysis has generally held a central role in contemporaneous linguistics with the aim of improving professional and academic communication. This study furthers our previous research on a particular genre analysis of the ‘About Us’ site in banks’ corporate websites (Casañ-Pitarch,...

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Main Author: Ricardo Casañ-Pitarch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
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Online Access:https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/7002
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description Research on genre analysis has generally held a central role in contemporaneous linguistics with the aim of improving professional and academic communication. This study furthers our previous research on a particular genre analysis of the ‘About Us’ site in banks’ corporate websites (Casañ-Pitarch, 2015). In this previous research, a possible standard model of the sections forming this genre was suggested. As result, that research has led to the need for conducting more in-deep studies on other individual elements concerning both the macro and microstructure within the same target genre. The present paper focuses on analysing some features on the use of verbs. To this purpose, the method to analyse the use of verbs is based on classifying verbs following Downing (2014) and to determine the most usual forms of these in each section of the target genre. Results show that the amount and form of verbs in each section are different.
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spelling doaj-art-099329debe9d4693973ce02b2e65e9a22025-08-20T01:53:31ZengUniversiti MalayaJournal of Modern Languages1675-526X2462-19862017-09-0127The Use of Verbs in Banks’ Corporate WebsitesRicardo Casañ-Pitarch0The Catholic University of Murcia, Spain Research on genre analysis has generally held a central role in contemporaneous linguistics with the aim of improving professional and academic communication. This study furthers our previous research on a particular genre analysis of the ‘About Us’ site in banks’ corporate websites (Casañ-Pitarch, 2015). In this previous research, a possible standard model of the sections forming this genre was suggested. As result, that research has led to the need for conducting more in-deep studies on other individual elements concerning both the macro and microstructure within the same target genre. The present paper focuses on analysing some features on the use of verbs. To this purpose, the method to analyse the use of verbs is based on classifying verbs following Downing (2014) and to determine the most usual forms of these in each section of the target genre. Results show that the amount and form of verbs in each section are different. https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/7002Verbs, genres analysis, language, banks, websites
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The Use of Verbs in Banks’ Corporate Websites
Journal of Modern Languages
Verbs, genres analysis, language, banks, websites
title The Use of Verbs in Banks’ Corporate Websites
title_full The Use of Verbs in Banks’ Corporate Websites
title_fullStr The Use of Verbs in Banks’ Corporate Websites
title_full_unstemmed The Use of Verbs in Banks’ Corporate Websites
title_short The Use of Verbs in Banks’ Corporate Websites
title_sort use of verbs in banks corporate websites
topic Verbs, genres analysis, language, banks, websites
url https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/7002
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