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There is hardly any aspect of verbal communication that has not
been investigated using the analytical tools developed by corpus
linguists. This is especially true in the case of English, which
commands a vast international research community, and corpora are
becoming increasingly specialised, as they account for areas of
language use shaped by specific sociolectal (register, genre,
variety) and speaker (gender, profession, status) variables. Corpus
analysis is driven by a common interest in 'linguistic evidence',
viewed as a source of insights into language phenomena or of
lexical, semantic and contrastive data for subsequent applications.
Among the latter, pedagogical settings are highly prominent, as
corpora can be used to monitor classroom output, raise learner
awareness and inform teaching materials. The eighteen chapters in
this volume focus on contexts where English is employed by
specialists in the professions or academia and debate some of the
challenges arising from the complex relationship between linguistic
theory, data-mining tools and statistical methods.
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