The impact of the SDGs on non-financial corporate communications: an analysis of CaixaBank reports (2013-2019)
Author
Jiménez-Yáñez, Ricardo-María
Fontrodona, Joan
Publication date
2022ISSN
1139-7241
Abstract
Academic interest in corporate discourse has been increasing in recent years. This paper examines how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have influenced the structure of the discourse employed in corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports, taking as a specific case the non-financial reports produced by CaixaBank. We employed a hybrid analytical method, using some techniques from corpus linguistics and framing analysis. In the non-financial reports from 2013 to 2017, a clear master frame was found, involving a negative evaluation of the influence of the economic crisis. In contrast, discourse concerning the SDGs forms the backbone of the 2018 and 2019 reports. From the point of view of linguistic/discursive methodology, this study shows how the use of corpus linguistic techniques in combination with framing analysis can facilitate an examination of the changes in corporate discourse on sustainability, providing an effective method of studying non-financial reports.
Document Type
Article
Document version
Published version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
8 - language. Linguistics. Literature
Keywords
ODS
RSE
Enquadrament
Lingüística de corpus
Informes
ODS
RSE
Encuadre
Lingüística de corpus
Informes
SDGs
CSR
Framing
Corpus linguistics
Reporting
Pages
26
Publisher
Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
Collection
43
Is part of
Revista Ibérica
Citation
Jiménez-Yáñez, Ricardo-María, Fontrodona, Joan. The impact of the SDGs on non-financial corporate communications: an analysis of CaixaBank reports (2013-2019). Revista Ibérica, 2022, 43, p. 205-234. Disponible en: <http://www.revistaiberica.org/index.php/iberica/article/view/580>. Fecha de acceso: 21 dic. 2022.
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2022 Ricardo-María Jiménez-Yáñez, Joan Fontrodona. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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