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 14, 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 ...
The Language of Hate: A Corpus Lingusitic Analysis of White Supremacist Language
1st Edition
By Andrew Brindle
August 23, 2018
In this book, Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of homosexuality, drawing conclusions about the discourses of extremism and the dissemination of far-right hate speech online. The website from which Brindle’s corpus is drawn...
Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus Linguistic Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Baker, Jesse Egbert
August 23, 2018
Contemporary corpus linguists use a wide variety of methods to study discourse patterns. This volume provides a systematic comparison of various methodological approaches in corpus linguistics through a series of parallel empirical studies that use a single corpus dataset to answer the same ...
Digital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama
1st Edition
By David L. Hoover, Jonathan Culpeper, Kieran O'Halloran
July 08, 2016
Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary texts it studies and the texts and collections of texts with which they are compared. It focuses on style, diction...
Antonymy: A Corpus-Based Perspective
1st Edition
By Steven Jones
January 21, 2016
Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. Antonyms are a ubiquitous part of everyday language, and this book provides a detailed, comprehensive account of the phenomenon.This book demonstrates how traditional linguistic...
Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction
1st Edition
By Michaela Mahlberg
May 22, 2015
This book presents an innovative approach to the language of one of the most popular English authors. It illustrates how corpus linguistic methods can be employed to study electronic versions of texts by Charles Dickens. With particular focus on Dickens’s novels, the book proposes a way into the ...
Spoken Corpus Linguistics: From Monomodal to Multimodal
1st Edition
By Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter
May 22, 2015
In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in ...