Presents a concise survey of corpus linguistics. This book introduces the key concepts in corpus linguistics and provides a brief history of the discipline. It shows how corpus linguistics can advance our study of words and meaning, the benefits of studying the corpora, and how meaning can best be conceptualised. It also includes a glossary.

1. Language and Corpus Linguistics - Wolfgang Teubert; 1.1 Are all Languages the Same?; 1.2 Standard Linguistics and Word Meaning; 1.3 Words, Idioms and Collocations; 1.4 Corpus Linguistics: A Different Look at Language; 1.5 A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics; 2. Directions in Corpus Linguistics - Wolfgang Teubert and Anna Cermakova; 2.1 Language and Representativeness; 2.2 Corpus Typology; 2.3 Meaning in Discourse; 2.4 Meaning as Usage and Paraphrase; 2.5 Globalisation; 2.6 What Corpus Linguistics can tell us about Meaning; 2.7 Collocations, Translation and Parallel Corpora; 2.8 Conclusion: From Meaning to Understanding Glossary; Suggestions for Further Reading.

"This book without a doubt is appealing for everybody interested in lexicography who wants to know how corpus linguistic can be used in lexicology and who ideally has some background knowledge about corpus linguistics."--Randall Eggert, The Linguist List, September 17, 2007