Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Designing a corpus; 3. Learning from a corpus: finding pattern in concordance lines; 4. Foundational quantitative concepts in corpus linguistics; 5. Exploring corpora through quantitative measures; 6. The language learner and the corpus; 7. Corpora and the analysis of discourse; 8. Further applications of corpus reearch; 9. Corpora and language theory; 10. Conclusion.

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This completely rewritten second edition provides a thorough introduction to corpus research from the point of view of Applied Linguistics.

About the Author

Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her recent publications include Corpus Approaches to Evaluation (Routledge 2011) and Interdisciplinary Research Discourse (with Paul Thompson, Routledge, 2019). She is a former Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics.