Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part I Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features -- Chapter 1 Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Would as a hedging device in an Irish context -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Good listenership made plain -- Transcription conventions -- References -- Chapter 4 Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5 Strong modality and negation in Russian -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Formulaic language in English academic writing -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Lexical bundles in Freshman composition -- References -- Chapter 8 Pseudo-Titles in the press genre of various components of the International Corpus of English -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic variation -- Notes -- References -- Part II Exploring dialect or register variation -- Chapter 10 Syntactic features of Indian English -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Variation in academic lectures -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Part III Exploring historical variation -- Chapter 12 The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Investigating register variation in nineteenth-century English -- Note -- References -- Index -- The series STUDIES IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS (SCL).