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 …

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 …

Key Terms in Stylistics is a substantial, timely and much-needed contribution to the rapidly
developing field of stylistics, Charting the development of stylistics from its inception to the …

To date, studies of social attitudes towards Scottish independence tend to have been of the
structured survey or interview variety. This study seeks to support and build upon the …

This chapter provides an introduction to the application of automatic text analysis (ATA) in
online behavioral research. We use the term ATA synonymously with the terms computer …

One day after taking a new job in the city of Bristol in the West of England, one of the
authors, Jonathan Charteris-Black, was purchasing a bicycle when he overheard a …

This chapter describes that an internet survey of a random sample of ten general MA
programmes in ELT/TESOL/TEFL in both the UK and the US at the time of writing revealed …

Fowler's (Linguistics and the novel, Methuen, 1977) original definition of mind style
emphasised consistency as a defining feature of the phenomenon, something that is (i) …

This article presents a qualitative and quantitative corpus study based on a collection of new
Labour texts (1994 to 2007), as an analysis of the party's discourse on globalization. In …

The article examines register variation in East African English by submitting the East African
component of the International Corpus of English (ICE) to a complete multidimensional …