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The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics




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ISBN 9780367076399
Published February 8, 2022 by Routledge
754 Pages 87 B/W Illustrations

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Book Description

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics 2e provides an updated overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Over a decade on from the first edition of the Handbook, this collection of 47 chapters from experts in key areas offers a comprehensive introduction to both the development and use of corpora as well as their ever-evolving applications to other areas, such as digital humanities, sociolinguistics, stylistics, translation studies, materials design, language teaching and teacher development, media discourse, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, second language acquisition and testing.

The new edition updates all core chapters and includes new chapters on corpus linguistics and statistics, digital humanities, translation, phonetics and phonology, second language acquisition, social media and theoretical perspectives. Chapters provide annotated further reading lists and step-by-step guides as well as detailed overviews across a wide range of themes. The Handbook also includes a wealth of case studies that draw on some of the many new corpora and corpus tools that have emerged in the last decade.

Organised across four themes, moving from the basic start-up topics such as corpus building and design to analysis, application and reflection, this second edition remains a crucial point of reference for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in applied linguistics.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1

‘Of what is past, or passing, or to come’: Corpus linguistics, changes and challenges

Anne O'Keeffe and Michael McCarthy

 

Section 1

Building and designing a corpus: the basics

 

2

Building a corpus: what are the key considerations?

Randi Reppen

3

Building a spoken corpus: what are the basics?

Dawn Knight and Svenja Adolphs

4

Building a written corpus: what are the basics?

Tony McEnery and Gavin Brookes

5

Building small specialised corpora

Almut Koester

6

Building a corpus to represent a variety of a language

Brian Clancy

7

Building a specialised audio-visual corpus

Paul Thompson

8

What corpora are available?

Martin Weisser

9

What can corpus software do?

Laurence Anthony

10

What are the basics of analysing a corpus?

Christian Jones

11

How can a corpus be used to explore patterns?

Susan Hunston

12

What can corpus software reveal about language development?

Xiaofei Lu

13

How to use statistics in quantitative corpus analysis?

Stefan Th. Gries 

 

Section 2

Using a corpus to investigate language

 

14

What can a corpus tell us about lexis?

David Oakey

15

What can a corpus tell us about multi-word units?

Chris Greaves and Martin Warren

16

What can a corpus tell us about grammar?

Susan Conrad

17

What can a corpus tell us about registers and genres?

Bethany Gray

18

What can a corpus tell us about discourse?

Gerlinde Mautner

19

What can a corpus tell us about pragmatics?

Christoph Rühlemann

20

What can a corpus tell us about phonetic and phonological variation?

Alexandra Vella and Sarah Grech

 

Section 3

Corpora, Language Pedagogy and Language Acquisition

 

21

What can a corpus tell us about language teaching?

Winnie Cheng and Phoenix Lam

22

What can corpora tell us about language learning? 

Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Geraldine Mark

23

What can CL tell us about second language acquisition?

Ute Römer and Jamie Garner

24

What can a corpus tell us about vocabulary teaching materials?

Martha Jones and Philip Durrant

25

What a corpus tells us about grammar teaching materials?

Graham Burton

26

Corpus-informed course book design

Jeanne McCarten

27

Using corpora to write dictionaries

Geraint Rees

28

What can corpora tell us about English for Academic Purposes?

Oliver Balance and Averil Coxhead

29

What is data-driven learning?

Angela Chambers

30

Using data-driven learning in language teaching

Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylviane Granger

31

Using corpora for writing instruction

Lynne Flowerdew

32

How can corpora be used in teacher education?

Fiona Farr

33

How can teachers use a corpus for their own research?

Elaine Vaughan

 

Section 4

Corpora and Applied Research

 

34

How to use corpora for translation

Silvia Bernardini

35

Using corpus linguistics to explore the language of poetry: a stylometric approach to Yeats’ poems

Dan McIntyre and Brian Walker

36

Using corpus linguistics to explore literary speech representation: non-standard language in fiction

Carolina P. Amador-Moreno and Ana Mª Terrazas-Calero

37

Exploring narrative fiction: corpora and digital humanities projects

Michaela Mahlberg and Viola Wiegand

38

Corpora and the language of films: exploring dialogue in English and Italian

Maria Pavesi

39

How to use corpus linguistics in sociolinguistics: a case study of modal verb use, age and change over time

Paul Baker and Frazer Heritage

40

Corpus linguistics in the study of news media

Anna Marchi

41

How to use corpus linguistics in forensic linguistics

Mathew Gillings

42

Corpus linguistics in the study of political discourse: recent directions

Charlotte Taylor

43

Corpus linguistics and health communication: Using corpora to examine the representation of health and illness

Gavin Brookes, Sarah Atkins and Kevin Harvey

44

Corpus linguistics and intercultural communication: avoiding the essentialist trap

Mike Handford

45

Corpora in language testing: developments, challenges and opportunities

Sara Cushing

46

Corpus linguistics and the study of social media: a case study using multi-dimensional analysis

Tony Berber Sardinha

47

Posthumanism and corpus linguistics

Kieran O'Halloran

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Editor(s)

Biography

Anne O’Keeffe is Senior Lecturer at MIC, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her publications include the titles From Corpus to Classroom (2007), English Grammar Today (2011), Introducing Pragmatics in Use (2nd edition 2020) and as co-editor The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (1st edition 2010). With Geraldine Mark, she was co-Principal Investigator of the English Grammar Profile. She is co-editor, with Michael J. McCarthy, of two book series: The Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides and The Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics.

Michael J. McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham. He is (co)author/(co)editor of 57 books, including Touchstone, Viewpoint, The Cambridge Grammar of English, English Grammar Today, From Corpus to Classroom, Innovations and Challenge in Grammar and titles in the English Vocabulary in Use series. He is author/co-author of 120 academic papers. He was co-founder of the CANCODE and CANBEC spoken English corpora projects. His recent research has focused on spoken grammar. He has taught in the UK, Europe and Asia and has been involved in language teaching and applied linguistics for 55 years.

 

Reviews

This outstanding volume manages to be three things at once: a manual on how to ‘do’ corpus linguistics; a showcase of the state of the art in corpus linguistics and its wide range of applications; and a source of new insights and research directions. As such, it will be a major point of reference for budding and seasoned corpus linguists for many years to come.

Elena Semino, Lancaster University, UK