Key Hyland is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Applied English Studies, University of Hong KongChau Meng Huat is Fellow in the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.Michael Handford is Associate Professor in English Language and Intercultural Communication at Tokyo University, Japan.

• Part 1: Introduction Introduction Ken Hyland, Chau Meng Huat and MichaelHandfordPart 2: Corpora and Institutional Uses of Language2. Professional Communication and Corpus Linguistics Michael Handford3. Corpora and Academic Discourse Ken Hyland 4. Corpora and Workplace Discourse Almut KoesterPart 3: Corpora in Applied Linguistics Domains5. Corpora and Translation Studies Sara Laviosa6. Some Aspects of the Use of Corpora in Forensic Linguistics John Olsson7. Corpora and Gender Studies Paul Baker8. Corpora and Media Studies Anne O'KeeffePart 4: Corpora in New Spheres of Study 9. Corpora and ELF Barbara Seidlhofer 10. Texting and Corpora Caroline Tagg 11. A Conceptual Model for Segmenting and Annotating a Documentary Photograph Corpus Gu Yueguo Part 5. Corpora, Language Learning and Pedagogy 12. Learner Corpora and Second Language Acquisition Chau Meng Huat 13. Corpora in the Classroom: An Applied Linguistic Perspective Lynne Flowerdew 14. Corpora and Materials Design Michael McCarthy and Jeanne McCartenAfterword Susan HunstonBibliographyIndex

We may not be too far away from the day when reference to corpus data is a sine qua non for any linguistic description and investigation. This book provides an astonishingly successful step in this direction. The book bristles with powerful insights, good practical ideas, exciting theory-building, exemplifying on every page the practice of applied linguistics at its very best.