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Appendix 1
Size and list of texts used in the study
English # Clauses # Words
Reports 114 3,311
Commentaries 290 6,977
Total 404 10,288
Spanish # Clauses # Words
Reports 111 3,338
Commentaries 111 3,453
Total 222 6,791
English reports and commentaries
Text reference Author and title Source, year # Clauses # Words
Report 1 Adam Sage, ‘Dominique Strauss-
Kahn, head of the IMF, escapes
dismissal over affair’
Times online,
2008
11 341
Report 2 Carl Mortished, ‘Opec hawks
want to cut oil production to
keep up price’
Times online,
2008
16 422
Report 3 Suzy Jagger and Mike Harvey,
‘Microsoft results offer hope to
tech sector’
Times online,
2008
13 315
Report 4 Lilly Peel, ‘Dutch Government to
inject €10bn of fresh capital into
ING savings bank’
Times online,
2008
15 347
Report 5 Leo Lewis, ‘G7 ‘preparing to
drive down the yen’’
Times online,
2008
15 566
Report 6 Lilly Peel, ‘Ukraine agrees terms
of $16.5bn rescue by IMF’
Times online,
2008
5 121
Report 7 Grainne Gilmore, ‘Barclays
rejects government funding,
secures £5.8bn from Qatar
and Abu Dhabi’
Times online,
2008
21 593
Report 8 Gary Duncan, ‘US economy
officially on brink of recession’
Times online,
2008
18 606
Comment 1 Shlomo Ben-Ami, ‘The Bigger
Issue in Sudan’
The project
syndicate, 2009
33 798