Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

"The inclusion of Contemporary in the title is no idle boast - all of these papers take corpus linguistics forward in exciting and challenging ways." - Michael Hoey, Baines Professor of English language, University of Liverpool, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Paul Baker \ 2. Metaphor, Alice Deignan \ 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner \ 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg \ 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper \ 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony \ 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers \ 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann & Svenja Adolphs \ 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakey \ 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes \ 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono \ 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen \ 13. The impact of corpora of dictionaries, Patrick Hanks \ 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao & Ming Yue \ 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie \ 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew \ 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King \ Bibliography \ Index

Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

"The inclusion of Contemporary in the title is no idle boast - all of these papers take corpus linguistics forward in exciting and challenging ways." - Michael Hoey, Baines Professor of English language, University of Liverpool, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Paul Baker \ 2. Metaphor, Alice Deignan \ 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner \ 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg \ 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper \ 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony \ 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers \ 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann & Svenja Adolphs \ 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakey \ 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes \ 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono \ 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen \ 13. The impact of corpora of dictionaries, Patrick Hanks \ 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao & Ming Yue \ 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie \ 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew \ 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King \ Bibliography \ Index

Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

"The inclusion of Contemporary in the title is no idle boast - all of these papers take corpus linguistics forward in exciting and challenging ways." - Michael Hoey, Baines Professor of English language, University of Liverpool, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Paul Baker \ 2. Metaphor, Alice Deignan \ 3. Corpora and Critical Discourse Analysis, Gerlinde Mautner \ 4. Corpus stylistics and the Pickwickian watering-pot, Michaela Mahlberg \ 5. The metalanguage of impoliteness: Using Sketch Engine to explore the Oxford English Corpus, Jonathan Culpeper \ 6. Issues in the design and development of software tools for corpus studies: The case for collaboration, Laurence Anthony \ 7. Compatibility between corpus annotation efforts and its effect on computational linguistics, Adam Meyers \ 8. Spoken corpus analysis: Multimodal approaches to language description, Irina Dahlmann & Svenja Adolphs \ 9. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus, David Oakey \ 10. Corpus linguistics and language variation, Michael P. Oakes \ 11. Integrating learner corpus analysis into a probabilistic model of second language acquisition, Yukio Tono \ 12. English language teaching and corpus linguistics: Lessons from the American National Corpus, Randi Reppen \ 13. The impact of corpora of dictionaries, Patrick Hanks \ 14. Using corpora in translation studies: The state of the art, Richard Xiao & Ming Yue \ 15. Corpus linguistics and the languages of South Asia: Some current research directions, Andrew Hardie \ 16. The web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners, Robert Lew \ 17. Building and analyzing corpora of computer-mediated communication, Brian King \ Bibliography \ Index