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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">34231</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-33561</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">AARCSO</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">A corpus-based approach to corporate communication research</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Корпусный подход к исследованию корпоративной коммуникации</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-0661</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Malyuga</surname><given-names>Elena N.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Малюга</surname><given-names>Елена Николаевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Professor of Linguistics, Head of Foreign Languages Department at the Faculty of Economics, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Doctor Habil. of Linguistics, Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the research journals Issues of Applied Linguistics and Training, Language and Culture. Her research interests include theory and practice of intercultural professional and business communication, pragmatics, corpus studies and discourse analysis. She is author and co-author of over 300 publications.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>профессор лингвистики, заведующая кафедрой иностранных языков экономического факультета Российского университета дружбы народов, доктор филологических наук, академик РАЕН, главный редактор научных журналов «Вопросы прикладной лингвистики» и “Training, Language and Culture”. Ее научные интересы включают теорию и практику межкультурного профессионального и делового общения, прагматику, корпусные исследования, дискурс-анализ. Она является автором и соавтором более 300 публикаций.</p></bio><email>malyuga-en@rudn.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-03-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>27</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Identity, Politeness and Discursive Practices  in a Changing World</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Идентичность, вежливость и дискурсивные практики  в меняющемся мире</issue-title><fpage>152</fpage><lpage>172</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-04-03"><day>03</day><month>04</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Malyuga E.N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Малюга Е.Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2023, Malyuga E.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Malyuga E.N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Малюга Е.Н.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Malyuga E.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/34231">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/34231</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a decisive reputation tool for companies and as such, a key concept in corporate communication as a phenomenon of intercultural and global significance. This has warranted a comprehensive examination of the language of CSR reports reflecting the principles of the corporate culture. Studies exploring the narratives of CSR reporting currently lack insights into the distribution of meaningful priorities evidenced in language use. This study sets out to explore the linguistic environment of the most frequently occurring language tokens to identify recurrent language patterns used to ensure efficient CSR reporting, and to further establish priority directions in CSR narrative composition evidenced in language use. A corpus-based approach and contextual analysis were adopted to examine CSR reports issued by Microsoft over the last seven years and recognised as an example of best practices in the corporate field. The corpus was compiled using the Prime Machine corpus concordancer tool and comprised 99,176 tokens. Following the study results, the study makes a number of inferences regarding the use of pronouns, “Microsoft + a verb denoting positive action”, “more + than,” “more + adjective”, “Corporate” as part of compound terminological units, as well as a set of key tokens encountered within a descriptive linguistic environment with positive connotation. This, in turn, proved helpful in identifying the hierarchy of priorities distribution revealed in the course of material analysis. The results contribute to a systemic appreciation of corporate language policies facilitating efficient stakeholder communication and can be used in further research investigating related matters of scientific interest.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Корпоративная социальная ответственность (КСО) стала действенным инструментом поддержания репутации компаний и одной из из ключевых концепций корпоративной коммуникации. Это привело к необходимости всестороннего изучения языка отчетов КСО, отражающего принципы корпоративной культуры как феномена межкультурной и глобальной значимости. Существующие исследования, рассматривающие тексты отчетов КСО, не дают представления о распределении смысловых приоритетов, проявляющихся в особенностях языкового оформления. В данном исследовании проводится анализ лингвистического окружения наиболее частотных языковых единиц с целью установления повторяющихся языковых моделей, используемых при составлении эффективных отчетов КСО, а также с целью определения приоритетных направлений их текстовой композиции, отражаемых в языке. Корпусный подход и контекстуальный анализ применяются в исследовании отчетов КСО, опубликованных компанией Microsoft за последние семь лет и признанных стандартом качества в корпоративной сфере. Корпус был создан с использованием конкордансера Prime Machine и инкорпорировал 99176 единиц анализа. На основе результатов исследования в работе предлагаются выводы в отношении использования местоимений, конструкций «Microsoft + глагол, обозначающий положительное действие», «more + than», «more + прилагательное», «Corporate» в составе составных терминологических единиц, а также набора ключевых единиц, встречающихся в рамках лингвистического окружения с положительной коннотацией. Это, в свою очередь, позволило идентифицировать иерархию распределения приоритетов, обнаруженную в ходе анализа материала. Полученные результаты способствуют системному осмыслению корпоративной языковой политики, позволяющей поддерживать эффективное коммуникативное взаимодействие с заинтересованными сторонами, и могут быть использованы в дальнейших исследованиях, рассматривающих смежные вопросы как объекты научного интереса.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>corporate social responsibility</kwd><kwd>corporate communication</kwd><kwd>corporate culture</kwd><kwd>linguistic environment</kwd><kwd>contextual analysis</kwd><kwd>corpus</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>корпоративная социальная ответственность</kwd><kwd>корпоративная коммуникация</kwd><kwd>корпоративная культура</kwd><kwd>языковое окружение</kwd><kwd>контекстуальный анализ</kwd><kwd>корпус</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">This publication has been supported by the RUDN University Scientific Projects Grant System, project № № 050734-2-000.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Andrews, Nathan. 2019. 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