Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics

Tony McEnery is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University and Changjiang Chair, Xi'an Jiaotong University. He has worked since the late 1980s on studying language using corpus data. He has published widely on a range of languages, topics and methods, with notable publications including Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2011, with Hardie). Vaclav Brezina is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and English Language and a member of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University. He is interested in corpus design and methodology, and statistics. He is the author of Statistics in Corpus Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

• Preface; Introduction; 1. The first sketch; 2. What is science?; 3. How to do science?; 4. What is social science and the digital humanities?; 5. Everyday linguistics: form and function; 6. Repetition and replication: laying the groundwork for an empirical study; 7. Replication: carrying out an empirical study; 8. Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2.