1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of Contributors; 3. Editors' foreword; 4. Introduction: Corpora, grammar, and discourse analysis: Recent trends, current challenges (by Groom, Nicholas); 5. Chapter 1. Pattern grammar and transitivity analysis (by Thompson, Geoff); 6. Chapter 2. Using COBUILD grammar patterns for a large-scale analysis of verb-argument constructions: Exploring corpus data and speaker knowledge (by Romer, Ute); 7. Chapter 3. "Hugh's across all that": Some changing uses of prepositions (by Francis, Gill); 8. Chapter 4. The textual functions of lexis (by Stubbs, Michael); 9. Chapter 5. Examining associations between lexis and textual position in hard news stories, or according to a study by... (by Hoey, Michael); 10. Chapter 6. I mean I only really wanted to dry me towels because ...: Organisational frameworks across modes, registers, and genres (by Warren, Martin); 11. Chapter 7. Probably most important of all: Importance markers in academic and popular history articles (by Bondi, Marina); 12. Chapter 8. Chatting in the academy: Informality in spoken academic discourse (by Buttery, Paula); 13. Chapter 9. General extenders in learner language (by Aijmer, Karin); 14. Chapter 10. Language description and language learning: The pedagogic corpus and learners as researchers (by Willis, Dave); 15. Chapter 11. "What we contrarians already know": Individual and communal aspects of attitudinal identity (by Bednarek, Monika); 16. Chapter 12. Does Britain need any more foreign doctors? Inter-analyst consistency and corpus-assisted (critical) discourse analysis (by Baker, Paul); 17. Publications by Susan Hunston; 18. Author Index; 19. Subject Index