Eric Friginal is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL and Director of International Programs, College of Arts and Sciences, at Georgia State University, USA.

• 1 Corpus approaches to sociolinguistics: Introduction and chapter overviewsEric Friginal and Mackenzie BristowPart 1: Corpora and the study of languages/dialects (Varieties of global Englishes)2 Using large online corpora to examine lexical, semantic, and cultural variation in different dialects and time periods Mark Davies3 Using corpus-based analysis to study register and dialect variation on the searchable webDouglas Biber, Jesse Egbert, and Meixiu Zhang4 Variation in global English: A collocation-based analysisTony Berber Sardinha5 Indian English: A pedagogical model (even) in India?Chandrika BalasubramanianPart 2: Corpora and social demographics6 Sexuality Paul Baker7 A corpus-based analysis of the pragmatic marker you get me Eivind Torgersen, Costas Gabrielatos, and Sebastian Hoffmann8 just, actually at work in New ZealandBernadette Vine9 Exploring the intersection of gender and race in evaluations of mathematics instructors on ratemyprofessors.comNicholas Close Subtirelu10 Attitudes towards autism of parents raising autistic children: Evidence from "mom" and "dad" blogsA. Cameron Coppala and Jack A. Hardy11 Social functional linguistic variation in conversational DutchJack Grieve, Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk GeeraertsPart 3: Corpora and register characteristics12 A corpus-driven investigation of corporate governance reportsMartin Warren13 A corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) of representations of the ‘underclass’ in the English-language press: Who are they, how do they behave, and who is to blame for them?Jane H. Johnson and Alan Partington14 ‘had enough of experts’: Intersubjectivity and the quoted voice in microblogging Michele Zappavigna15 Linguistic variation in Facebook and Twitter postsEric Friginal, Oksana Waugh, and Ashley Titak