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.
The Handbook provides an updated overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. This second edition remains a crucial point of reference for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in Applied Linguistics.
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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
1 Of what is past, or passing, or to come: Corpus linguistics, changes
and challenges Section 1 Building and designing a corpus: the basics 2
Building a corpus: what are the key considerations? 3 Building a spoken
corpus: what are the basics? 4 Building a written corpus: what are the
basics? 5 Building small specialised corpora 6 Building a corpus to represent
a variety of a language 7 Building a specialised audio-visual corpus 8 What
corpora are available? 9 What can corpus software do? 10 What are the basics
of analysing a corpus? 11 How can a corpus be used to explore patterns? 12
What can corpus software reveal about language development? 13 How to use
statistics in quantitative corpus analysis? Section 2 Using a corpus to
investigate language 14 What can a corpus tell us about lexis? 15 What can a
corpus tell us about multi-word units? 16 What can a corpus tell us about
grammar? 17 What can a corpus tell us about registers and genres? 18 What can
a corpus tell us about discourse? 19 What can a corpus tell us about
pragmatics? 20 What can a corpus tell us about phonetic and phonological
variation? Section 3 Corpora, Language Pedagogy and Language Acquisition 21
What can a corpus tell us about language teaching? 22 What can corpora tell
us about language learning? 23 What can CL tell us about second language
acquisition? 24 What can a corpus tell us about vocabulary teaching
materials? 25 What a corpus tells us about grammar teaching materials? 26
Corpus-informed course book design 27 Using corpora to write dictionaries 28
What can corpora tell us about English for Academic Purposes? 29 What is
data-driven learning? 30 Using data-driven learning in language teaching 31
Using corpora for writing instruction 32 How can corpora be used in teacher
education? 33 How can teachers use a corpus for their own research? Section 4
Corpora and Applied Research 34 How to use corpora for translation 35 Using
corpus linguistics to explore the language of poetry: a stylometric approach
to Yeats poems 36 Using corpus linguistics to explore literary speech
representation: non-standard language in fiction 37 Exploring narrative
fiction: corpora and digital humanities projects 38 Corpora and the language
of films: exploring dialogue in English and Italian 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 41 How to use corpus linguistics in forensic linguistics
42 Corpus linguistics in the study of political discourse: recent directions
43 Corpus linguistics and health communication: Using corpora to examine the
representation of health and illness 44 Corpus linguistics and intercultural
communication: avoiding the essentialist trap 45 Corpora in language testing:
developments, challenges and opportunities 46 Corpus linguistics and the
study of social media: a case study using multi-dimensional analysis 47
Posthumanism and corpus linguistics, Index
Anne OKeeffe 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.
