Table 4 Structural moves identified in business newsletters.

From: Only business, no politics: a triangulated discursive analysis of business newsletters of China’s Belt and Road on domestic social media

Moves

Communicative purposes

Number of occurrences (Percentages)

Types

1

Summarizing projects in the form of a title

To narrate

1152(100%)

Obligatory

2

Describing projects in more detail

To narrate

1152(100%)

Obligatory

3

Emphasizing the meaningfulness from the side of the targeted countries

To persuade

713(62%)

Conventional

4

Emphasizing the meaningfulness from the side of Chinese enterprises

To persuade

541(47%)

Optional

5

Acknowledging the source of a message

To persuade

1,152(100%)

Obligatory

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