Corpora in Applied Linguistics

Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her recent publications include Corpus Approaches to Evaluation (Routledge 2011) and Interdisciplinary Research Discourse (with Paul Thompson, Routledge, 2019). She is a former Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Designing a corpus; 3. Learning from a corpus: finding pattern in concordance lines; 4. Foundational quantitative concepts in corpus linguistics; 5. Exploring corpora through quantitative measures; 6. The language learner and the corpus; 7. Corpora and the analysis of discourse; 8. Further applications of corpus reearch; 9. Corpora and language theory; 10. Conclusion.

'… part of the merit of this absorbing book is the fact that it can be read by novice and advanced readers in Corpus Linguistics and will appeal to researchers in this field of knowledge. Another source of praise of the book refers to the myriad of vivid examples that help grasp the concepts and terms exemplified in the book. In same vein, this book covers a wide range of pertinent topics running the gamut from discourse analysis to translation and contrastive analysis with an exclusive focus on corpora.' Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani, Corpus Pragmatics