TY - BOOK AU - Heba Mohsen Sayed Mohamed AU - Manar Shalaby , AU - Salwa Kamel , TI - A linguistic analysis of investment banks{u2019} securities recommendation reports : : A corpus driven analysis of the genre in the Arab world / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Heba Mohsen Sayed Mohamed , KW - Organizational structure of SRRs KW - Semi technical lexis KW - Technical lexis N1 - Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English; Issued also as CD N2 - This thesis provides an analysis of securities recommendation reports (SRRs) on the rhetorical, lexical and syntactic levels. On the rhetorical level, a common pattern of the moves shaping the organizational structure of SRRs has been inferred in adaptation to swales{u2019} (1990) move - analysis model, known as CARS (create a research space). SRRs are found to have three obligatory macro - moves: Preamble, Review and analysis of the company performance and appendix, each underlying primary and secondary moves. On the lexical level, WordSmith Tools 5.0 (Scott, 2009a), a text analysis suite, has been employed to identify the keywords specific to the genre of SRRs and then to analyze them through drawing a comparison between them and the top 100 keywords of Nelson{u2019}s (2000a) business English corpus (BEC) in terms of grammatical categorization, technical and semi-technical lexi UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -