The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics provides a timely overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Through the electronic analysis of large bodies of text, corpus linguistics demonstrates and supports linguistic statements and assumptions. In recent years it has seen an ever-widening application in a variety of fields: computational linguistics, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, pragmatics and translation studies.

Bringing together experts in the key areas of development and change, the handbook is structured around six themes which take the reader through building and designing a corpus to using a corpus to study literature and translation. Each theme is preceded by a substantial overview of the area putting the subsequent themes into perspective.

A comprehensive introduction covers the historical development of the field and its growing influence and application in other areas. Structured around five headings for ease of reference, each contribution includes further reading sections with three to five key texts highlighted and annotated to facilitate further exploration of the topics. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics is the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates.

Contents:

Historical perspective: What are corpora and how have they evolved? / Michael J. McCarthy and Anne O'Keeffe
Theoretical overview of the evolution of Corpus Linguistics / Elena Tognini Bonelli
Building a corpus: What are the key considerations? / Randi Reppen
Building a spoken corpus: What are the basics? / Svenja Adolphs and Dawn Knight 
Building a written corpus: What are the basics? / Mike Nelson
Building small specialised corpora / Almut Koester 
Building a corpus to represent a variety of a language / Brian Clancy 
Building a specialised audio-visual corpus / Paul Thompson 
What corpora are available? / David Y.W. Lee
What are the basics of analysing a corpus? / Jane Evison 
What can corpus software do? / Mike Scott 
How can a corpus be used to explore patterns? / Susan Hunston 
What are concordances and how are they used? / Christopher Tribble 
What can corpus software reveal about language development? / Xiaofei Lu 
What can a corpus tell us about lexis? / Rosamund Moon 
What can a corpus tell us about multi-word units? / Chris Greaves and Martin Warren 
What can a corpus tell us about grammar? / Susan Conrad 
What can a corpus tell us about registers? / Doug Biber 
What can a corpus tell us about specialist genres? / Mike Handford 
What can a corpus tell us about discourse? / Scott Thornbury 
What can a corpus tell us about pragmatics? / Christoph Rühlemann 
What can a corpus tell us about creativity? / Thuc Anh Vo and Ronald Carter
What can a corpus tell us about language teaching? / Winnie Cheng
What features of spoken and written corpora can be exploited in creating language teaching materials and syllabuses? / Steve Walsh 
What is Data-Driven Learning? / Angela Chambers
How can Data-Driven Learning be used in language teaching? / Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylviane Granger 
How can we prepare learners for using language corpora? / Passapong Sripicharn
What a corpus tell us about vocabulary teaching materials? / Martha Jones and Philip Durrant 
What a corpus tells us about grammar teaching materials? / Rebecca Hughes
Corpus-informed course book design / Jeanne McCarten 
Using corpora to write dictionaries / Elizabeth Walter
Using corpora to design writing materials / Lynne Flowerdew 
What can corpora tell us about English for Academic Purposes? / Averil Coxhead
How can teachers use a corpus for their own research? / Elaine Vaughan
What are parallel and comparative corpora and how can we use them? / Marie Madeleine Kenning 
How can corpora help in translation? / Natalie Kübler and Guy Aston
How can corpora be used to explore the language of poetry and drama? / Daniel McIntyre and Brian Walker 
How can corpora be used to explore literary speech representation? / Carolina P. Amador Moreno 
How to use corpus linguistics in Sociolinguistics? / Gisle Andersen 
How to use corpus linguistics in the study of Media Discourse? / Kieran O'Halloran 
How to use corpus linguistics in Forensic Linguistics? / Janet Cotterill
How to use corpus linguistics in the study of political discourse? / Annelie Ädel 
How to use corpus linguistics in the study of health communication? / Sarah Atkins and Kevin Harvey 
How can corpora be used in teacher education? / Fiona Farr 
How can corpora be used in language testing? / Fiona Barker.