This book investigates administrative reports prepared in the EU and national settings. The multidimensional genre analysis situates administrative reports among other reports, accounts for the context of their production and use, and investigates their macrostructure, lexico-grammatical patterns and multimodality.

This book is the first comprehensive study of administrative reports. It investigates the reports prepared in the EU and national settings using a multidimensional genre analysis model. The book provides an account of the context of production and use of the reports and a corpus analysis of the macrostructure, lexico-grammatical patterns and multimodal aspects of the reports. Administrative reports are a hybrid and dynamic genre with salient linguistic features and two varieties: a highly institutionalised EU one, and a more varied national one. The reports are a powerful instrument in the communication policy of the institutions, performing informative and image-building functions. The book is an important contribution to the study of administrative language and the Eurolect.

Autorentext

Katarzyna Wasilewska completed PhD studies in Linguistics at the University of Warsaw and BA studies in International Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, institutional translation and the language of finance and economy.

Inhalt

administrative reports - administrative language - Eurolect - corpus study - textual fit - genre analysis - European Commission - terminological variation - multimodality