The Handbook provides an updated overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. This second edition remains a crucial point of reference for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in Applied Linguistics.

Anne O'Keeffe is Senior Lecturer at MIC, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her publications include the titles From Corpus to Classroom (2007), English Grammar Today (2011), Introducing Pragmatics in Use (2nd edition 2020) and as co-editor The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (1st edition 2010). With Geraldine Mark, she was co-Principal Investigator of the English Grammar Profile. She is co-editor, with Michael J. McCarthy, of two book series: The Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides and The Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics.

Michael J. McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham. He is (co)author/(co)editor of 57 books, including Touchstone, Viewpoint, The Cambridge Grammar of English, English Grammar Today, From Corpus to Classroom, Innovations and Challenge in Grammar and titles in the English Vocabulary in Use series. He is author/co-author of 120 academic papers. He was co-founder of the CANCODE and CANBEC spoken English corpora projects. His recent research has focused on spoken grammar. He has taught in the UK, Europe and Asia and has been involved in language teaching and applied linguistics for 55 years.

1 'Of what is past, or passing, or to come': Corpus linguistics, changes and challenges Section 1 Building and designing a corpus: the basics 2 Building a corpus: what are the key considerations? 3 Building a spoken corpus: what are the basics? 4 Building a written corpus: what are the basics? 5 Building small specialised corpora 6 Building a corpus to represent a variety of a language 7 Building a specialised audio-visual corpus 8 What corpora are available? 9 What can corpus software do? 10 What are the basics of analysing a corpus? 11 How can a corpus be used to explore patterns? 12 What can corpus software reveal about language development? 13 How to use statistics in quantitative corpus analysis? Section 2 Using a corpus to investigate language 14 What can a corpus tell us about lexis? 15 What can a corpus tell us about multi-word units? 16 What can a corpus tell us about grammar? 17 What can a corpus tell us about registers and genres? 18 What can a corpus tell us about discourse? 19 What can a corpus tell us about pragmatics? 20 What can a corpus tell us about phonetic and phonological variation? Section 3 Corpora, Language Pedagogy and Language Acquisition 21 What can a corpus tell us about language teaching? 22 What can corpora tell us about language learning? 23 What can CL tell us about second language acquisition? 24 What can a corpus tell us about vocabulary teaching materials? 25 What a corpus tells us about grammar teaching materials? 26 Corpus-informed course book design 27 Using corpora to write dictionaries 28 What can corpora tell us about English for Academic Purposes? 29 What is data-driven learning? 30 Using data-driven learning in language teaching 31 Using corpora for writing instruction 32 How can corpora be used in teacher education? 33 How can teachers use a corpus for their own research? Section 4 Corpora and Applied Research 34 How to use corpora for translation 35 Using corpus linguistics to explore the language of poetry: a stylometric approach to Yeats' poems 36 Using corpus linguistics to explore literary speech representation: non-standard language in fiction 37 Exploring narrative fiction: corpora and digital humanities projects 38 Corpora and the language of films: exploring dialogue in English and Italian 39 How to use corpus linguistics in sociolinguistics: a case study of modal verb use, age and change over time Paul Baker and Frazer Heritage 40 Corpus linguistics in the study of news media 41 How to use corpus linguistics in forensic linguistics 42 Corpus linguistics in the study of political discourse: recent directions 43 Corpus linguistics and health communication: Using corpora to examine the representation of health and illness 44 Corpus linguistics and intercultural communication: avoiding the essentialist trap 45 Corpora in language testing: developments, challenges and opportunities 46 Corpus linguistics and the study of social media: a case study using multi-dimensional analysis 47 Posthumanism and corpus linguistics, Index