Contemporary Corpus Linguistics

Abstract

1. Introduction, Paul Baker 2. Metaphor, Alice Deignan 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann & Svenja Adolphs 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakey 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen 13. The impact of corpora of dictionaries, Patrick Hanks 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao & Ming Yue 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King Bibliography Index.