Diane Goossens
List of John Benjamins publications in which Diane Goossens is involved.
Articles
2013 Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: More or less the same? Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson, Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), pp. 139–156 | Article
This paper examines and compares quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting using two comparable 500,000-word corpora. The method used to identify quantity approximation is inductive and involves the scrutiny of concordances of numbers automatically retrieved from a… read more
2013 Assessing corpus search methods
in onomasiological investigations: Exploring quantity approximation in business discourse Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis, Hasselgård, Hilde, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (eds.), pp. 271–292 | Article
This paper sets out to explore and evaluate several corpus search methods that are applied to uncover linguistic devices expressing ‘quantity approximation’ in a corpus of business English from an onomasiological perspective. The study is carried out within the framework of a project exploring… read more