List of figures; List of tables; To readers; List of abbrevations; 1: Corpus linguistics; 2: Counting, calculating and annotating; 3: Looking for lexis; 4: Checking colligations and collocations; 5: Finding phrases; 6: Metaphor and metonymy; 7: Grammar; 8: Male and female; 9: Language change; 10: Corpus linguistics in cyberspace; Further reading