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

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.