The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics provides a timely overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Through the electronic analysis of large bodies of text, corpus linguistics demonstrates and supports linguistic statements and assumptions. In recent years it has seen an ever-widening application in a variety of fields: computational linguistics, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, pragmatics and translation studies.

Bringing together experts in a number of key areas of development and change, the handbook is structured around six themes which take the reader through building and designing a corpus to using a corpus to study literature and translation.

A comprehensive introduction covers the historical development of the field and its growing influence and application in other areas. Structured around five headings for ease of reference, each contribution includes further reading sections with three to five key texts highlighted and annotated to facilitate further exploration of the topics.

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics is the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates.

Anne O’Keeffe is senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Michael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK, Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Contributors: Annelie Ädel, Svenja Adolphs, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Gisle Andersen, Guy Aston, Sarah Atkins, Fiona Barker, Douglas Biber, Ronald Carter, Angela Chambers, Winnie Cheng, Brian Clancy, Susan Conrad, Janet Cotterill, Averil Coxhead, Philip Durrant, Jane Evison, Fiona Farr, Lynne Flowerdew, Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Sylviane Granger, Chris Greaves, Michael Handford, Kevin Harvey, Rebecca Hughes, Susan Hunston, Martha Jones, Marie-Madeleine Kenning, Dawn Knight, Almut Koester, Natalie Kübler, David Lee, Xiaofei Lu, Jeanne McCarten, Michael McCarthy, Dan McIntyre, Rosamund Moon, Mike Nelson, Kieran O’Halloran, Anne O’Keeffe, Randi Reppen, Christoph Rühlemann, Mike Scott, Passapong Sripicharn, Paul Thompson, Scott Thornbury, Elena Tognini Bonelli, Christopher Tribble, Elaine Vaughan, Thuc Anh Vo, Brian Walker, Steve Walsh, Elizabeth Walter, Martin Warren.