Ulla Connor, the Barbara E. and Karl R. Zimmer Chair in Intercultural Communication, is Professor of English and Director of the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.Thomas A. Upton is Associate Professor of English and Director of the English as a Second Language Program at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

• PrefaceAnalyzing Spoken and Written Language CorporaAnne O’KEEFFE: ‘Like the Wise Virgins and all that Jazz:’ Using a Corpus to Examine Vague Categorisation and Shared KnowledgeMartin WARREN: A Corpus-driven Analysis of the Use of Intonation to Assert Dominance and ControlWinnie CHENG: // → FRIENDS // ↑↓ LAdies and GENtlemen //: Some Preliminary Findings from a Corpus of Spoken Public Discourses in Hong Kong Doublas BIBER, Eniko CSOMAY, James K. JONES and Casey KECK: A Corpus Linguistic Investigation of Vocabulary-based Discourse Units in University RegistersJoAnne NEFF, Francisco BALLESTEROS, Emma DAFOUZ, Francisco MARTÍNEZ, Juan-Pedro RICA, Mercedes DÍEZ and Rosa PRIETO: Formulating Writer Stance: A Contrastive Study of EFL Learner CorporaSuzana M. SOTILLO and Julie WANG-GEMPP: Using Corpus Linguistics to Investigate Class, Ideology, and Discursive Practices in Online Political DiscussionsPedagogical Applications of CorporaSylviane GRANGER: Computer Learner Corpus Research: Current Status and Future ProspectsBoyd DAVIS and Lisa RUSSELL-PINSON: Concordancing and Corpora for K-12 Teachers: Project MORE Wolfgang TEUBERT: Units of Meaning, Parallel Corpora, and their Implications for Language TeachingWilliam H. FLETCHER: Making the Web More Useful as a Source for Linguistic CorporaMark DAVIES: Student Use of Large Corpora to Investigate Language ChangeEileen FITZPATRICK and M.S. SEEGMILLER: The Montclair Electronic Language Database ProjectJoybrato MUKHERJEE: Bridging the Gap between Applied Corpus Linguistics and the Reality of English Language Teaching in GermanyJohn OSBORNE: Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Corpora in Language TeachingPieter de HAAN and Kees van ESCH: Towards an Instrument for the Assessment of the Development of Writing Skills

"the diversity of topics does indeed create multidimensional perspectives …This will be a volume of value to those who are interested in the growing range of applications of corpus-based methodology" - in: Language and Education, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2006)