Aaron Ventura

List of John Benjamins publications for which Aaron Ventura plays a role.

Articles

Castaño Castaño, Emilia, Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso and Aaron Ventura 2014 Economy is a living organism: Metaphorical expressions in a learner corpus of EnglishRevista 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
Salazar, Danica, Aaron Ventura and Isabel Verdaguer 2013 A cross-disciplinary analysis of personal and impersonal features in English and Spanish scientific writingBiomedical 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
Ventura, Aaron 2013 As described below: A corpus-based approach to the verb describe in scientific EnglishBiomedical 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