'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
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.