Corpora: corpora containing business texts

[David Lee]

Phillip,

> A graduate student of mine is trying to find corpora containing
> business-related  texts (other than newspaper or magazine
> texts) in English for his thesis research.  Can anyone help
> us locate such corpora?

There are around 122 files in the British National Corpus (BNC) which
are broadly concerned with commerce, finance, management, etc.,
totalling 3,783,695 words  (even more files _if_ you want to include
things like company annual reports). They are quite a mixed bag, and not
finely classified, so you may find other more specialised corpora, such
as the ones mentioned in the earlier responses, more helpful (viz. the
Wolverhampton Corpus of Business English and the corpus of corpus of
English in Business Studies & Economics (HKUST)).

If you're interested in the actual file IDs for the BNC files, you may
contact me directly.

Regards,

David Lee
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