Macintosh, Norman B.; Baker, C. Richard - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 15 (2002) 2, pp. 184-222
This paper adopts a literary theory perspective to depict accounting reports and information as texts rather than as … economic commodities and so available for analysis from the vantage point of semiotic linguistic theory. In doing so it takes … dominant genres of literary theory – expressive realism, the new criticism, structuralism, and deconstructionism – to …