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APPROACHING LANGUAGE VARIATION THROUGH CORPORA ...

This book is a collection of papers using samples of real language data (corpora) to explore
variation in the use of English. This collection celebrates the achievements of Toshio Saito  a
pioneer in corpus linguistics within Japan and founder of the Japan Association for English
Corpus Studies (JAECS). The main aims throughout the collection are to present practical
solutions for methodological and interpretational problems common in such research  and to make
the research methods and issues as accessible as possible  to educate and inspire future
researchers. Together  the papers represent many different dimensions of variation  including:
differences in (frequency of) use under different linguistic conditions  differences between
styles or registers of use  change over time  differences between regional varieties 
differences between social groups  and differences in use by one individual on different
occasions. The papers are grouped into four sections: studies considering methodological
problems in the use of real language samples  studies describing features of language usage in
different linguistic environments in modern English  studies following change over time  and
case studies illustrating variation in usage for different purposes  or by different groups or
individuals  in society.

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