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 …

In 2012, four days before Valentine's Day, I was contacted by a journalist who worked for an
international newspaper. He was writing an article 'on linguistic differences between men …

Keyword analysis has become an indispensable tool for discourse analysts, being applied
to identify the words that are especially characteristic of the texts in a target discourse …

This chapter provides an overview of one of the most crucial but at the same time most
underused basic statistical measures in corpus linguistics, dispersion, ie the degree to which …

Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication provides an instructive and practical guide to
conducting research using methods in corpus linguistics in studies of various forms of online …

Frequency lists are useful in their own right for assisting a linguist, lexicographer, language
teacher, or learner analyse or exploit a corpus. When employed comparatively through the …

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research,
including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro …

Sound vocabulary repertoire is a requisite for reading and all learning. Teaching a
language's vocabulary is a mammoth undertaking, unless particular lexical items are …

Hugh Craig and Brett Greatley-Hirsch extend the computational analysis introduced in
Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (edited by Hugh Craig and Arthur …

In this paper, I investigate online film subtitles from a quantitative perspective, treating them
as a separate register of communication. Subtitles from films in English and other languages …