Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt are professors of English linguistics at the University of Zurich.

• IntroductionAndreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt: Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discoursePragmatics and discourseThomas Kohnen: Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and textsIrma Taavitsainen: The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourseTanja Rütten: A diachronic perspective on changing routines in textsMinna Nevala: Friends will be “friends”? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English lettersMinna Palander-Collin: Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interactionAnita Fetzer: Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue?Karin Aijmer: “So er I just sort I dunno I think it’s just because...”: A corpus study of I don’t know and dunno in learners’ spoken EnglishMagnus Levin and Hans Lindquist: On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize textKarin Axelsson: Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutionsAnna Marchi and Charlotte Taylor: Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005Lexis, grammar and semanticsStephen Coffey: A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frameMagali Paquot and Yves Bestgen: Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extractionNaixing Wei: On the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSECJukka Tyrkkö and Turo Hiltunen: Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writingArja Nurmi: May: The social history of an auxiliary Sara Gesuato: GO to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensionsCarolin Biewer: Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study Ingvilt Marcoe: Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writingDaniël Van Olmen: A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperativesCorpus compilation, fieldwork and parsingDagmar Deuber: Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysisAlpo Honkapohja, Samuli Kaislaniemi and Ville Marttila: Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corporaHans Martin Lehmann and Gerold Schneider: Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactionsIndex

”This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in how corpus-based research can contribute to the study of higher-level linguistic phenomena. The breadth of the collected papers is impressive, both in terms of their linguistic objects of study, which vary from high-level categories, such as exhortations, to specific constructions and words, as well as in the range of methodological approaches that are adopted by the authors of the studies. … a remarkable volume, presenting studies that should appeal to newcomers to corpus-based research in pragmatics and discourse as well as those who have already conducted this kind of research and want to stay informed of current approaches.” in: The Linguist List 21.2695