'A unique collection of essays on corpus projects that are fundamentally different from the wide range of general reference corpora of standard English(es)' - Joybrato Mukherjee, English World-Wide

 

A range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available. This is especially true of that which one might describe as 'unconventional', namely, dialects, child language and bilingual databases. This book is a first step toward developing similar standards for enriching and preserving these neglected resources.

 

from the Introduction:
Have you ever seen pictures of astronauts floating in space? Have you ever wondered why we do not float off the earth? When you push open a door, you are using a force. Forces are pushes or pulls. Forces make objects move. One force, called gravity, always pulls us toward earth. It keeps us from floating off into space. Even astronauts floating in a space shuttle are being pulled
toward earth by gravity. They are floating because the spaceship is also being pulled toward earth.
Gravity makes us and every object fall toward earth when dropped. We measure the force of gravity by weighing objects. You can find your weight by standing on a bathroom scale. Gravity pulls you down against the scale. Your weight is the force gravity exerts on you.
Weight is measured in pounds (lb) or kilograms (kg). Pounds are divided into ounces (oz). Kilograms are divided into grams (g). The weights of small things, like medicines, are measured in ounces or grams.
In this book, you will learn how to change one kind of measurement, like kilograms, into another such as pounds.

Ernest Hemingway nearly defined machismo for many American men of the twentieth century. Yet, in recent years critics have discerned an "androgynous" sexuality beneath the surface stoicism of Hemingway's heroes. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly submissive and masochistic posture toward women exhibited by many of Hemingway's heroes, from Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises to David Bourne in The Garden of Eden.

This book constitutes the first comprehensive, critical, up-to-date review of therapeutic play work.