The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics by O'Keeffe, Anne; McCarthy, Michael J.;

Short description:

The Handbook provides an updated overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. This second edition remains a crucial point of reference for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in Applied Linguistics.

Long description:

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.

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

Table of Contents:

1 ‘Of what is past, or passing, or to come’: Corpus linguistics, changes and challenges Section 1 Building and designing a corpus: the basics 2 Building a corpus: what are the key considerations? 3 Building a spoken corpus: what are the basics? 4 Building a written corpus: what are the basics? 5 Building small specialised corpora 6 Building a corpus to represent a variety of a language 7 Building a specialised audio-visual corpus 8 What corpora are available? 9 What can corpus software do? 10 What are the basics of analysing a corpus? 11 How can a corpus be used to explore patterns? 12 What can corpus software reveal about language development? 13 How to use statistics in quantitative corpus analysis? Section 2 Using a corpus to investigate language 14 What can a corpus tell us about lexis? 15 What can a corpus tell us about multi-word units? 16 What can a corpus tell us about grammar? 17 What can a corpus tell us about registers and genres? 18 What can a corpus tell us about discourse? 19 What can a corpus tell us about pragmatics? 20 What can a corpus tell us about phonetic and phonological variation? Section 3 Corpora, Language Pedagogy and Language Acquisition 21 What can a corpus tell us about language teaching? 22 What can corpora tell us about language learning? 23 What can CL tell us about second language acquisition? 24 What can a corpus tell us about vocabulary teaching materials? 25 What a corpus tells us about grammar teaching materials? 26 Corpus-informed course book design 27 Using corpora to write dictionaries 28 What can corpora tell us about English for Academic Purposes? 29 What is data-driven learning? 30 Using data-driven learning in language teaching 31 Using corpora for writing instruction 32 How can corpora be used in teacher education? 33 How can teachers use a corpus for their own research? Section 4 Corpora and Applied Research 34 How to use corpora for translation 35 Using corpus linguistics to explore the language of poetry: a stylometric approach to Yeats’ poems 36 Using corpus linguistics to explore literary speech representation: non-standard language in fiction 37 Exploring narrative fiction: corpora and digital humanities projects 38 Corpora and the language of films: exploring dialogue in English and Italian 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 41 How to use corpus linguistics in forensic linguistics 42 Corpus linguistics in the study of political discourse: recent directions 43 Corpus linguistics and health communication: Using corpora to examine the representation of health and illness 44 Corpus linguistics and intercultural communication: avoiding the essentialist trap 45 Corpora in language testing: developments, challenges and opportunities 46 Corpus linguistics and the study of social media: a case study using multi-dimensional analysis 47 Posthumanism and corpus linguistics, Index