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Includes bibliographical references.

Setting the scene. The electronic life of texts : insights from corpus linguistics for all fields of English / Anne Curzan ; Textual analysis : from philology to corpus linguistics / Charles F. Meyer. Focus on present-day and recent English. Cross-linguistic perspectives / Stig Johansson ; English style on the move: variation and change in stylistic norms in the twentieth century / Geoffrey Leech, Nicholas Smith and Paul Rayson. Focus on early English. Historical pragmatics and corpus linguistics : problems and strategies / Laurel J. Brinton ; Upon these Heads I shall discourse : lexicographical and corpus evidence for senses and phrases / Claudia Claridge ; Prayers in the history of English : a corpus-based study / Thomas Kohnen ; Semantic drift in Shakespeare, and Early Modern English full-text corpora / Ian Lancashire ; Corpora and the study of the history of English / Matti Rissanen ; The status of onset contexts in analysis of micro-changes / Elizabeth Closs Traugott.

The chapters in this collected volume illuminate the dynamic success story of English corpus linguistics over the past few decades. The book is organised in three parts. The chapters in Part I set the scene by addressing fundamental issues such as the balance between automated and manual analyses, and the urgent call for more communication and collaboration across subjects and research areas. The studies in Part II highlight patterns in Present-day English from a cross-linguistic perspective, and identify and analyse stylistic trends in recent English. Part III is devoted to aspects of the ric.