Contemporary Corpus Linguistics

Paul Baker is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Modern English language at Lancaster University, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Paul Baker; 2. Metaphor, Alice Deignan; 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner; 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg; 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper; 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony; 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers; 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann & Svenja Adolphs; 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakey; 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes; 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono; 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen; 13. The impact of corpora of dictionaries, Patrick Hanks; 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao & Ming Yue; 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie; 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew; 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King; Bibliography; Index.

"After [Baker's] useful introduction, which provides a brief but sensible update on the current status of corpus Work, there are sixteen chapters by different authors on the way corpora can contribute to the study of all kinds of topics, including metaphor, critical discourse analysis, stylistics, lexical patterning, patterns in speech, linguistic variation, dictionaries, second language teaching, translation and on the more technical issues of software development and corpus-building" (The Year's Work in English Studies)"