The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

This volume provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of corpus-based linguistic research on English.

Douglas Biber (Edited by), Randi Reppen (Edited by)

9781107037380, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 June 2015

642 pages, 66 b/w illus. 4 maps 66 tables
24.4 x 17 x 3.5 cm, 1.43 kg

'This Handbook offers uniquely detailed discussions of the latest corpus-based linguistic research on language variation and use, telling us what we learnt through the findings and why they are significant.' Eniko Csomay, San Diego State University

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

Introduction Douglas Biber and Randi Reppen
Part I. Methodological Considerations: 1. Corpora: an introduction Mark Davies
2. Computational tools and methods for corpus compilation and analysis Paul Rayson
3. Quantitative designs and statistical techniques Stefan Th. Gries
Part II. Corpus Analysis of Linguistic Characteristics: 4. Discourse intonation: a corpus-driven study of prominence on pronouns Winnie Cheng
5. Keywords Jonathan Culpeper and Jane Demmen
6. Collocation Richard Xiao
7. Phraseology Bethany Gray and Douglas Biber
8. Descriptive grammar Geoffrey Leech
9. Grammatical variation Daniela Kolbe-Hanna and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
10. Grammatical change Martin Hilpert and Christian Mair
11. Lexical grammar Susan Hunston
12. Using corpora in discourse analysis Alan Partington and Anna Marchi
13. Pragmatics Brian Clancy and Anne O'Keeffe
14. Historical pragmatics Irma Taavitsainen
Part III. Corpus Analysis of Varieties: 15. Spoken discourse Shelley Staples
16. Corpora and written academic English Ken Hyland
17. Register variation Susan Conrad
18. Diachronic registers Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
19. Literary style and literary texts Michaela Mahlberg
20. Dialect variation Jack Grieve
21. World Englishes Marianne Hundt
22. New answers to familiar questions: English as a lingua franca Anna Mauranen, Ray Carey and Elina Ranta
23. Learner language Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylviane Granger
Part IV. Other Applications of Corpus Analysis: 24. Vocabulary Ron Martinez and Norbert Schmitt
25. Lexicography and phraseology Magali Paquot
26. Classroom applications of corpus analysis Thomas Cobb and Alex Boulton
27. Corpus versus non-corpus informed pedagogical materials: grammar as the focus Fanny Meunier and Randi Reppen
28. Translation Silvia Bernardini.

Subject Areas: Educational: English language & literacy [YQC], Research methods: general [GPS], Applied linguistics for ELT [EBAL], Historical & comparative linguistics [CFF], Language acquisition [CFDC], Sociolinguistics [CFB], Linguistics [CF], Language [C]