Cover -- Halftitle -- Seriespage -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Searching for Metaphorical Patterns in Corpora -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Recent Developments in Metaphor Theory -- 2.3 Metaphor Theory and Corpus Linguistics -- 2.4 Challenges for Investigating Metaphor in Corpus Data -- 2.5 Contributions of Corpus Linguistics to the Study of Metaphor -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 CDA and Corpus Data -- 3.3 Review of Existing Work -- 3.4 Case Studies -- 3.5 Concluding Caveats -- Chapter 4: Corpus Stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Systematicity and Qualitative Analysis -- 4.3 Mr Tupman Proposes to the Spinster Aunt -- 4.4 The Pickwickian watering-pot -- 4.5 Clusters as a Way into the Dickensian World -- 4.6 Body Language and Household Items: The Example of down his knife and fork -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to Explore the Oxford English Corpus -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Metalanguage of impoliteness -- 5.3 The Oxford English Corpus and Sketch Engine -- 5.4 The Metalanguage of impoliteness in the Linguistics Academic Community -- 5.5 impoliteness-Related Terms in the OEC -- 5.6 Sketch Engine: rude and impolite Compared -- 5.7 Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Issues in the Design and Development of SoftwareTools for Corpus Studies: The Case for Collaboration -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Relationship Between Corpora and Corpus Tools -- 6.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of DIY Corpus Tool Development -- 6.4 Collaboration in the Design and Development of Corpus Tools: The Case of AntConc -- 6.5 Discussion -- Chapter 7: Compatibility Between Corpus Annotation Efforts and its Effect on Computational Linguistics -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 The Desirability of Compatible Theories of Corpus Annotation -- 7.3 Phrase Structure and Dependency Approaches to Treebanking -- 7.4 A la Carte Approaches and the Merging of Annotation -- 7.5 Choosing Corpora for Multiple Annotations -- 7.6 The Future of Corpus Annotation -- 7.7 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 8: Spoken Corpus Analysis: Multimodal Approaches to Language Description -- 8.1 The Case of Multi-Word Expressions -- 8.2 Textual Analysis of I think -- 8.3 I think and Pauses -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Fixed Collocational Patterns in Isolexical and Isotextual Versions of a Corpus -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Firthian Collocation -- 9.3 Studies of Extended Empirical Collocations -- 9.4 Corpora and Academic Discourse -- 9.5 Isolexical and Isotextual Versions of a Corpus -- 9.6 Isolexical and Isotextual Frequencies of 3-word Strings -- 9.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Corpus Linguistics and Language Variation -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Chi-Squared Test -- 10.3 Genre Analysis -- 10.5 Computational Stylometry -- 10.6 Discussion -- Chapter 11: Integrating Learner Corpus Analysis into a Probabilistic Model of Second Language Acquisition -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Recent Challenges for Learner Corpus Research -- 11.3 Multifactorial Analyses and Beyond -- 11.4 Motivating Probabilities -- 11.5 Integrating Probabilities into SLA Theory -- 11.6 Implementation: A DOP Model -- 11.7 Integrative Perspectives of SLA as a Stochastic Language Model -- 11.8 Future Directions -- Chapter 12: English Language Teaching and Corpus Linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 First Things First -- 12.3 Getting Ready for the Classroom -- 12.4 On to the Classroom -- 12.5 Wrapping Up -- Chapter 13: The Impact of Corpora on Dictionaries -- 13.1 Early Corpora -- 13.2 Corpus-Driven Lexicography: From Cobuild to MEDAL.

13.3 Coverage: Deciding What to Leave Out -- 13.4 Definitions -- 13.5 Citing Examples -- 13.6 Pragmatics -- 13.7 Phraseology -- 13.8 Grammar -- 13.9 The Role of Corpus Evidence in Dictionaries for Native Speakers -- 13.10 The Future: FrameNet and the Pattern Dictionary -- 13.11 Conclusion -- Chapter 14: Using Corpora in Translation Studies: The State of the Art -- 14.1 Introduction: Paradigmatic Shifts in Translation Studies -- 14.2 Corpora Used in Translation Studies -- 14.3 Corpus-Based Translation Studies -- 14.4 Core Lexical Features of Translated Novels in Chinese -- 14.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 15: Corpus Linguistics and the Languages of South Asia: Some Current Research Directions -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The State of the Art - Corpus Linguistics and South Asian Languages -- 15.3 A Corpus-Based Comparative Analysis of Hindi and Urdu Vocabulary -- 15.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 16: The Web as Corpus Versus Traditional Corpora: Their Relative Utility for Linguists and Language Learners -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Size of Textual Resources -- 16.3 Linguistic Representativeness and the Balancing of Corpora -- 16.4 Noise -- 16.5 Functionality and Access Mechanism -- 16.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 17: Building and Analysing Corpora of Computer-Mediated Communication -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Corpus Construction -- 17.3 Background to the Project -- 17.4 Compiling the Queer Chat-Room Corpus (Problems and Solutions) -- 17.5 Annotating the Queer Chat-Room Corpus (Problems and Solutions) -- 17.6 Analysing the Chat-Room Corpus (Problems and Solutions) -- 17.7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.