Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: More or less the same?
(2013) Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson — ISBN: [978 90 272 0359 5], p. 139-156, published
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- 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 part-of-speech tagged version of the corpora. The contrastive study of quantity expressions co-occurring with numbers reveals some similarities and differences between English and French when it comes to the company the approximators tend to keep and the semantic and grammatical categories they represent. The analysis shows that overall there is less approximation around numbers in the French corpus than in the English corpus.
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De Cock, S., & Goossens, D. (2013). Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: More or less the same? In Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg (ed.), Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson (p. p. 139-156). John Benjamins. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/229533