While trust-oriented financial communication will be a central focus of this DAFC edition, the conference warmly welcomes any contribution which may enhance the understanding of financial market interactions from a discourse analytic perspective. Relevant topics include but are not limited

• Discourse and genre analysis of corporate financial disclosures (e.g. annual reports, quarterly announcements, M&A documents), emergent genres (e.g. analysts’ and investors’ conferences). 


• The discourse of ‘information intermediaries’ (e.g. Rating agencies’ announcements, Analysts’ recommendations, printed and online news articles. comments and opinions) and of financial regulation (e.g. the discourse of central banks, discursive interactions in international 
accounting standard setting process). 


• The persuasive design of corporate reporting documents and other financial discourse genres. 


• Cognitive-semantic frames and financial knowledge in expert and lay financial discourse. 
Constructions, key phrases, and key-words. The cognitive, affective and persuasive role of 
metaphors in financial discourse. 


• The analysis of factuality, modality, probability and (un-)certainty in financial discourse: 
combining discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and natural language processing. 


• Narrative analysis of financial documents. 


• Analyzing argumentation in financial discourse. Reconstructing argumentative strategies. 
Detecting bias, fallacies and irrationality through argument analysis. 


• Mining financial texts to enhance security price predictions: exploring the predictive value of 
different indicators (e.g. the role of length, readability, parts-of-speech distribution, etc.). 


• The analysis of evaluative language, affect, and verbally expressed sentiment in financial 
discourse: enhancing sentiment analysis with discourse analysis.