Larissa Goulart

List of John Benjamins publications in which Larissa Goulart is involved.

Journal

Register Studies

Edited by Jesse Egbert and Bethany Gray

ISSN 2542-9477 | E‑ISSN 2542‑9485

Titles

Situational Context in Register Studies

Edited by Marianna Gracheva and Larissa Goulart

Special issue of Register Studies 7:2 (2025) v, 219 pp.

Variation in University Student Writing: A communicative text type approach

Larissa Goulart

This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both assignment type and discipline. Drawing on a corpus of more than 900 undergraduate student assignments from four disciplinary groups (Arts and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 117] 2024. xviii, 239 pp.

Gracheva, Marianna and Larissa Goulart 2026 Situations of language use: Situations of Language Use Situational Context in Register Studies, Gracheva, Marianna and Larissa Goulart (eds.), pp. 161–172 | Introduction

Goulart, Larissa and Tülay Dixon 2025 The relative influence of language backgrounds, communicative text types, and disciplines in undergraduate student writing Cumulative Knowledge Building in Learner Corpus Research, Larsson, Tove and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 178–216 | Article

Previous studies of undergraduate writing investigated linguistic variation across (i) assignment types, (ii) disciplines, and (iii) language backgrounds. The combined findings of these studies allowed us to formulate eight hypotheses as to how undergraduate writing is likely to vary across… read more

Goulart, Larissa 2021 Register variation in L1 and L2 student writing: A multidimensional analysis Register Studies 3:1, pp. 115–143 | Article

While there have been many studies describing L2 academic writing, most of these studies have used corpora of first year or assessment writing (Crosthwaite 2016; Weigle & Friginal 2014). The present study seeks to describe linguistic variation in L2 writing for content classes and to compare… read more

Laporte, Samantha, Tove Larsson and Larissa Goulart 2021 Testing the Principle of No Synonymy across levels of abstraction: A constructional account of subject extraposition Constructions and Frames 13:2, pp. 230–262 | Article

This corpus-based study tests the Principle of No Synonymy across levels of abstraction by examining the syntactic realizations of subject extraposition (e.g., it is important to, it seems that), and by investigating at which level(s) of formal description a difference in form also entails a… read more