Conveying companies’ socially responsible image across languages - Cultural differences and their implications for translation

This article presents a corpus-based analysis of personalisation patterns in a specialized corpus of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. More specifically, it compares native English reports and reports issued in English by Italian companies, to assess how differences in the use of first-person deixis affect the construction of corporate image in translated texts. Possible motivations for – and implications of – the observed strategies are also discussed.