Do you use language corpora in your research or study, but find that you struggle with
statistics? This practical introduction will equip you to understand the key principles of …

Sensori-motor synchronization (SMS) is the coordination of rhythmic movement with an
external rhythm. It plays a central role in motor, cognitive, and social behavior. SMS is …

Corpora are widely used in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame
corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part …

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers
an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of …

This article offers a critical review of a methodology often employed in corpusbased
sociolinguistic studies which make use of aggregate data. This methodology relies on a …

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 …

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 …

Corpus Linguistics has revolutionised the world of language study and is an essential
component of work in Applied Linguistics. This book, now in its second edition, provides a …

Rather than always inventing examples to illustrate points, we have tried to take them from
real life uses of language. To achieve this, we have used corpora–large collections of …

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics
can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist …