From the contents: Guy ASTON: The learner as corpus designer. - Antoinette RENOUF: The time dimension in modern English corpus linguistics. - Mike SCOTT: Picturing the key words of a very large corpus and their lexical upshots or getting at the guardian's view of the world. - Lou BURNARD: The BNC: where did we go wrong? Corpus-based teaching material. - Averil COXHEAD: The academic word list: a corpus-based word list for academic purposes.

Planing, Gluing and Painting Corpora comprises eleven articles concerned with the varied and variable practical work of (primarily applied) corpus linguists, overall with a strong methodological and process-oriented focus. The contributions, bringing together established names and novices, cover topics such as corpus composition and design, the use of corpora for researching theoretical linguistic issues and for investigating discourse analytical questions, and the application of corpora and corpus linguistics in foreign language teaching and foreign language didactics. The corpora...