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Corporate Communications An International Journal – Emerald Publishing
Published: Jul 31, 2019
Keywords: Business strategy; Linguistics; Corporate strategy; Discourse analysis; Responsibility; Environmental issues; Written communications; Risk; Climate change; Oil industry; Rhetorical behaviour
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