A UJI thesis stresses the importance of club reports in the Premier League for the spreading of financial information in English



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## A UJI thesis stresses the importance of club reports in the Premier League for the spreading of financial information in English

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"Organisational Setting Confidence, Emotional Competition and Results: A Linguistic Study of Annual Reports, 2003-2012" is the title of the doctoral thesis defended by Álvaro Sáenz Suber at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló. Its main objective is to analyze the linguistic corpus integrated by annual reports issued by football clubs in the Barclays Premier League, the highest professional competition league for English and Welsh clubs, focusing on a narrative and voluntary section: the president's letter or *chairman's statement*.

One of the main contributions of the thesis, directed by Dr. Juan C. Palmer Silveira, coordinator of the Master's Degree in English Language for International Trade (ELIT), is the creation of a particular taxonomy based on gender models, named *SOCCER*, that can be applied to the study of president's letters of the clubs participating in the Barclays Premier League and other international competitions. It develops a series of hypotheses that may be interesting in future research concerning linguistic and visual elements or even for the development of contrastive and comparative analysis with other football clubs.

The study has been developed working with 288 annual reports published by the *Barclays Premier League* football clubs competing between seasons 2002-2003 and 2011-2012. From this compilation, 139 chairman’s statements have been used for the analysis of the particularities linked to the external and internal structures of the mentioned section, which emphasise the role played by the presence of visual devices (e.g. photographs, tables or figures), length of the texts and the use of different linguistic resources, such as metadiscourse elements or the strategies implemented by the chairmen to deal with the topic of the financial crisis.

Regarding the original contributions of the current dissertation, results contribute significantly to the knowledge about the annual reports and, in particular, the chairman’s statement section, through an academic perspective that until now had been mainly focused on both finance and marketing studies of the millionaire and international football industry, characterised by having in the *Barclays Premier League* one of the most important references worldwide, especially from several perspectives (from its organisational and competitive levels to the broadcasting agreements and distribution among the clubs).

Besides, from a pedagogical approach, the dissertation particularly emphasises the importance of the written genres and corporate financial disclosure in English. So, the annual report and its narrative sections are a communicative model that may be included in multiple courses related to the subdivisions of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Business English, considering that their main aim is to successfully communicate to shareholders an honest, valuable and persuasive message, which requires certain level of specialisations and the acquisition of excellent and efficient communication skills.

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