2nd Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics 2e provides an updated overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Over a decade on from the first edition of the Handbook, this collection of 47 chapters from experts in key areas offers a comprehensive introduction to both the development and use of corpora as well as their ever-evolving applications to other areas, such as digital humanities, sociolinguistics, stylistics, translation studies, materials design, language teaching and teacher development, media discourse, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, second language acquisition and testing.
The new edition updates all core chapters and includes new chapters on corpus linguistics and statistics, digital humanities, translation, phonetics and phonology, second language acquisition, social media and theoretical perspectives. Chapters provide annotated further reading lists and step-by-step guides as well as detailed overviews across a wide range of themes. The Handbook also includes a wealth of case studies that draw on some of the many new corpora and corpus tools that have emerged in the last decade.
Organised across four themes, moving from the basic start-up topics such as corpus building and design to analysis, application and reflection, this second edition remains a crucial point of reference for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in applied linguistics.
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1
‘Of what is past, or passing, or to come’: Corpus linguistics, changes and challenges
Anne O'Keeffe and Michael McCarthy
Section 1
Building and designing a corpus: the basics
2
Building a corpus: what are the key considerations?
Randi Reppen
3
Building a spoken corpus: what are the basics?
Dawn Knight and Svenja Adolphs
4
Building a written corpus: what are the basics?
Tony McEnery and Gavin Brookes
5
Building small specialised corpora
Almut Koester
6
Building a corpus to represent a variety of a language
Brian Clancy
7
Building a specialised audio-visual corpus
Paul Thompson
8
What corpora are available?
Martin Weisser
9
What can corpus software do?
Laurence Anthony
10
What are the basics of analysing a corpus?
Christian Jones
11
How can a corpus be used to explore patterns?
Susan Hunston
12
What can corpus software reveal about language development?
Xiaofei Lu
13
How to use statistics in quantitative corpus analysis?
Stefan Th. Gries
Section 2
Using a corpus to investigate language
14
What can a corpus tell us about lexis?
David Oakey
15
What can a corpus tell us about multi-word units?
Chris Greaves and Martin Warren
16
What can a corpus tell us about grammar?
Susan Conrad
17
What can a corpus tell us about registers and genres?
Bethany Gray
18
What can a corpus tell us about discourse?
Gerlinde Mautner
19
What can a corpus tell us about pragmatics?
Christoph Rühlemann
20
What can a corpus tell us about phonetic and phonological variation?
Alexandra Vella and Sarah Grech
Section 3
Corpora, Language Pedagogy and Language Acquisition
21
What can a corpus tell us about language teaching?
Winnie Cheng and Phoenix Lam
22
What can corpora tell us about language learning?
Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Geraldine Mark
23
What can CL tell us about second language acquisition?
Ute Römer and Jamie Garner
24
What can a corpus tell us about vocabulary teaching materials?
Martha Jones and Philip Durrant
25
What a corpus tells us about grammar teaching materials?
Graham Burton
26
Corpus-informed course book design
Jeanne McCarten
27
Using corpora to write dictionaries
Geraint Rees
28
What can corpora tell us about English for Academic Purposes?
Oliver Balance and Averil Coxhead
29
What is data-driven learning?
Angela Chambers
30
Using data-driven learning in language teaching
Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylviane Granger
31
Using corpora for writing instruction
Lynne Flowerdew
32
How can corpora be used in teacher education?
Fiona Farr
33
How can teachers use a corpus for their own research?
Elaine Vaughan
Section 4
Corpora and Applied Research
34
How to use corpora for translation
Silvia Bernardini
35
Using corpus linguistics to explore the language of poetry: a stylometric approach to Yeats’ poems
Dan McIntyre and Brian Walker
36
Using corpus linguistics to explore literary speech representation: non-standard language in fiction
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno and Ana Mª Terrazas-Calero
37
Exploring narrative fiction: corpora and digital humanities projects
Michaela Mahlberg and Viola Wiegand
38
Corpora and the language of films: exploring dialogue in English and Italian
Maria Pavesi
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
Anna Marchi
41
How to use corpus linguistics in forensic linguistics
Mathew Gillings
42
Corpus linguistics in the study of political discourse: recent directions
Charlotte Taylor
43
Corpus linguistics and health communication: Using corpora to examine the representation of health and illness
Gavin Brookes, Sarah Atkins and Kevin Harvey
44
Corpus linguistics and intercultural communication: avoiding the essentialist trap
Mike Handford
45
Corpora in language testing: developments, challenges and opportunities
Sara Cushing
46
Corpus linguistics and the study of social media: a case study using multi-dimensional analysis
Tony Berber Sardinha
47
Posthumanism and corpus linguistics
Kieran O'Halloran
Index
Biography
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.
This outstanding volume manages to be three things at once: a manual on how to ‘do’ corpus linguistics; a showcase of the state of the art in corpus linguistics and its wide range of applications; and a source of new insights and research directions. As such, it will be a major point of reference for budding and seasoned corpus linguists for many years to come.
Elena Semino, Lancaster University, UK
In this upgraded second version, the editors seek to update the development of many new corpora and corpus tools that have emerged in the last decade, especially based on the evidence from “corpus linguistics and statistics, digital humanities, translation, phonetics and phonology, second language acquisition, social media and theoretical perspectives” (p. i). Consequently, this book can be considered as one of the latest references on corpus methodology that is a must-read for both graduates and scholars interested in exercising corpus methodology in their professional careers.
Chenghui Wu, Springer Journals
