The starting point of corpus linguistics can be traced by considering the issue of observable
data and how this has been handled in different periods and across different theoretical …

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 …

Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

CQPweb is a new web-based corpus analysis system, intended to address the conflicting
requirements for usability and power in corpus analysis software. To do this, its user …

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book
shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected …

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 …

This paper reports the extension of the key words method for the comparison of corpora.
Using automatic tagging software that assigns part-of-speech and semantic field (domain) …

This paper explores keywords, key part-of-speech categories and key semantic categories
and their role in text analysis. The first part of the paper addresses a set of issues relating to …

We critically assess mainstream accounting and finance research applying methods from
computational linguistics (CL) to study financial discourse. We also review common themes …

When applying corpus linguistic techniques to historical corpora, the corpus researcher
should be cautious about the results obtained. Corpus annotation techniques such as part of …