Diane Goossens

List of John Benjamins publications for which Diane Goossens plays a role.

Articles

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
Goossens, Diane 2013 Assessing corpus search methods 
in onomasiological investigations: Exploring quantity approximation in business discourseCorpus 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