Aaron Ventura
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aaron Ventura is involved.
Articles
2014 Economy is a living organism: Metaphorical expressions in a learner corpus of English Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:2, pp. 323–337 | Article
This paper presents results from a qualitative corpus-based study on Spanish EFL learners’ metaphorical production. The analysis of a learner corpus of business English, which included essays written by undergraduates, showed that learners do make use of metaphorical language and that the… read more
2013 A cross-disciplinary analysis of personal and impersonal features in English and Spanish scientific writing Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. 121–144 | Article
This study is a corpus-based, cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary analysis of impersonal and personal constructions in scientific texts. Passive structures (to be + past participle) and personal expressions (first-person pronouns) were extracted from a corpus of research articles taken from an… read more
2013 As described below: A corpus-based approach to the verb describe in scientific English Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. 73–104 | Article
This case study aims to investigate the relevance, as well as the use, of the lexical verb describe in scientific research articles, so as to determine the degree of importance of such a guiding verb within this type of discourse and within the scientific process itself. A detailed exploration of… read more