An accessible, hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English. After introducing corpora and the rationale behind corpus linguistics and describing the basic methodology, Hans Lindquist presents a number of case studies that offer new insights about vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor, metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, register and style, and changes in language. Each chapter features exercises and suggestions for further reading. The book will appeal to students because of its clear language and structure, well-defined terminology, step-by-step instructions, generous and up-to-date examples from different varieties of English around the world, and accompanying web-pages with additional exercises and recent research concerning freely accessible corpora. This book is aimed at university students of English at the intermediate level and is especially well suited for students planning term papers and longer projects.

Hans Lindquist is associate professor of English linguistics at Växjö University, Sweden. He has been a guest professor at Zurich University, Northern Arizona University, and Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Lindquist has used corpora for research on lexicology, phraseology, linguistic variation, and language change. He has coedited volumes on translation theory, the major varieties of English, corpus use in the classroom, and corpora and grammaticalization.

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