Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Applied Corpus Linguistics and the learning experience -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate Corpus Linguistics in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. What are the advantages and the challenges of setting up learner corpora? And how have they impacted research in Applied Linguistics? -- 9. In what way(s) can corpus work help student autonomy? -- 10. What are the challenges and potentials of encoding corpora? -- References -- Social involvement in Corpus studies -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate Corpus Linguistics in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. How may Corpus Linguistics be combined with critical discourse analysis? -- 9. In what ways have corpus analyses increased the understanding of gender issues? -- 10. In which circumstances does Corpus Linguistics enhance the outcome of sociolinguistic studies? -- References.

Corpus Linguistics in South America -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate Corpus Linguistics in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. What are the limits and possibilities of carrying out corpora studies in developing countries? -- 9. How feasible is it to map metaphors by means of corpus techniques? -- 10. In what ways can corpora be exploited in order to design and evaluate language teaching materials for students of English or Spanish as a foreign language (EFL/SFL)? -- References -- Variation in corpora and its pedagogical implications -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate Corpus Linguistics in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. How can corpus analysis inform our understanding of registers? -- 9. In what way(s) may corpus findings inform the professional practice? -- 10. When and how should teachers (or teachers-to-be) be introduced to corpus techniques? -- References -- Synchronic and diachronic uses of corpora.

1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate Corpus Linguistics in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. How far should tools and corpora become public domain? -- 9. How much technology should an analyst master? What are the minimum requirements to develop corpus work? -- 10. In what ways have corpus studies impacted historical linguistics? -- References -- Methodological and interdisciplinary stance in Corpus Linguistics -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate Corpus Linguistics in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. What is the role of programming knowledge in undertaking corpus work? -- 9. What are the issues involved in comparing corpora? -- 10. How much statistics does a corpus analyst need to master? -- References -- Looking through corpora into writing practices -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be?.

4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. What have corpus studies revealed about academic literacy at the university? -- 9. In what way(s) may Corpus Linguistics account for the social construction of knowledge? -- 10. How may the corpus approach enhance our understanding of interpersonal features in writing? -- References -- A multilingual outlook of corpora studies -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate Corpus Linguistics in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. How would you describe the changes which have taken place in the field of Corpus Linguistics? -- 9. How can corpora enlighten cross-linguistic studies? -- 10. What are the advantages and disadvantages of compiling and using parallel and/or comparable corpora? -- References -- Corpus Linguistics and translation studies -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate Corpus Linguistics in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of?.

6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. In what ways can Corpus Linguistics help translation studies? -- 9. What advantages do corpora provide when compared to traditional resources used by translators? -- 10. What are the criteria for selecting a suitable corpus for a translation task? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Principles and applications of Corpus Linguistics -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in the area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate Corpus Linguistics in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics? -- 8. In what ways can corpus analysis help pragmatic understanding of language use? -- 9. How can style be accounted for (semi-)automatically by means of corpus investigation? -- 10. What are the advantages and shortcomings of annotating a corpus from a linguistic perspective? -- References -- Philosophical and literary concerns in Corpus Linguistics -- 1. Where do you place the roots of Corpus Linguistics? And to what do you attribute the growth of interest in this area? -- 2. Is Corpus Linguistics a science or a methodology? Where would you situate CL in the scientific or methodological panorama? -- 3. How representative can a corpus be? -- 4. How far should an analyst rely on intuition? -- 5. What kind of questions should an analyst think of? -- 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of corpus analysis? -- 7. What is the future of Corpus Linguistics?.

8. In what ways has Corpus Linguistics challenged traditional literary concepts?.