Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
About the Book Series
Corpus based linguistics is a dynamic area of linguistic research. The series aims to reflect the diversity of approaches to the subject, and thus to provide a forum for debate and detailed discussion of the various ways of building, exploiting, and theorizing about the use of corpora in language studies.
Editorial Board:
- Laurence Anthony
- Monika Bednarek
- Tony Berber Sardinha
- Vaclav Brezina
- Isobelle Clarke
- Marianne Hundt
- Kaibao Hu
- Kris Kyle
- Michaela Mahlberg
- Gerlinde Mautner
- Anne O’Keeffe
- Ute Römer
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Yingyu Li
Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry, Tony McEnery, Emma Putland
November 25, 2025
This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse. The volume builds on recent work expanding the contours of health communication research to extend to medical texts of the past,...
Corpus Approaches to Discourse in Forensic and Legal Contexts
1st Edition
By David Wright
February 20, 2025
This book is the first of its kind to bridge the gap between corpus linguistics and forensic linguistics, illustrating the value of applying corpus linguistic data, tools, and methods in the analysis of language in the law, evidence, crime, and justice. The volume begins by taking stock of the use ...
Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media
1st Edition
By Matteo Di Cristofaro
December 19, 2024
This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language data from social media, surveying current approaches, and offering guidelines and best practices for doing language analysis. The book provides an overview of how language in ...
The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity: Theoretical Foundation, Descriptive Research Findings, Application
1st Edition
By Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, Shelley Staples, Jesse Egbert
January 29, 2024
This collection brings together the authors' previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account for its further study. The book traces the development of the RF approach from its foundations in two major ...
Multifunctionality in English: Corpora, Language and Academic Literacy Pedagogy
1st Edition
Edited
By Zihan Yin, Elaine Vine
September 25, 2023
This edited volume provides detailed analyses of multifunctional forms in English and offers hands-on approaches exemplifying relevant implications and useful applications to language and literacy educators in TESOL, ESL/EFL/EAL and research students in applied linguistics and education. The ...
Corpora in ESP/EAP Writing Instruction: Preparation, Exploitation, Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Maggie Charles, Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
January 09, 2023
This collection showcases the latest innovations in research on the application of corpora and corpus-based methods in ESP/EAP writing instruction and the many ways in which corpora can be successfully and practically integrated in ESP/EAP programmes. While previous work has discussed the ...
Overcoming Challenges in Corpus Construction: The Spoken British National Corpus 2014
1st Edition
By Robbie Love
December 13, 2021
This volume offers a critical examination of the construction of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014) and points the way forward toward a more informed understanding of corpus linguistic methodology more broadly. The book begins by situating the creation of this second corpus, a...
Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Jesse Egbert, Paul Baker
April 01, 2021
This book builds on Baker and Egbert’s previous work on triangulating methodological approaches in corpus linguistics and takes triangulation one step further to highlight its broader applicability when implemented with other linguistic research methods. The volume showcases research methods from ...
The Religious Rhetoric of U.S. Presidential Candidates: A Corpus Linguistics Approach to the Rhetorical God Gap
1st Edition
By Arnaud Vincent
March 31, 2021
Drawing on corpus linguistic methods of analysis, this book critically examines the "rhetorical God gap" in American political discourse between the Democratic and Republican parties. The volume investigates the claims (which have often not been substantiated by quantitative data in the literature ...
Self-Reflexive Journalism: A Corpus Study of Journalistic Culture and Community in the Guardian
1st Edition
By Anna Marchi
December 18, 2020
This book develops a corpus-assisted approach to the study of self-reflexivity in journalism and examines the ways in which news workers and subsequently, news organizations, choose to promote an identity for themselves and the ideologies that accompany them. Using The Guardian as a case study, the...
Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-Based Study
1st Edition
By Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Andrew Hardie, Sheila Payne, Paul Rayson
August 14, 2020
This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic and cognitive tool that is frequently used ...
Understanding Metaphor through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing
1st Edition
By Katie Patterson
August 14, 2020
This book introduces a unique methodology to the study of metaphor, integrating a corpus linguistic approach to explore the lexical, grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of metaphoric instances of language. The volume questions the reliability of attempts to identify metaphor based ...