This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.
Main Chapters:
1. Words in Use: Introductory Examples
2. Words, Phrases and Meanings: Basic Concepts
3. Words in Phrases 1: Concepts, Data and Methods
4. Words in Phrases 2: A Case Study of the Phraseology of English
5. Words in Text 1: Words, Phrases and Text Cohesion
6. Words in Text 2: A Case Study of a Short Story
7. Words in Culture 1: Case Studies of Cultural Keywords
8. Words in Culture 2: Case Studies of Loan Words in English
9. Words, Phrases and Connotations: On Lexico-grammar and Evaluative Language
10. Data and Dualisms: On Corpus Methods and Pluralist Models
