This book presents a richly illustrated hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing
fields in linguistics today. The authors address key methodological issues in corpus
linguistics such as collocations keywords and the categorization of concordance lines. They
show how these topics can be explored step-by-step with BNCweb a user-friendly web-based tool
that supports sophisticated analyses of the 100-million-word British National Corpus. Indeed
the BNC and BNCweb have been described by Geoffrey Leech as «an unparalleled combination of
facilities for finding out about the English language of the present day» (Foreword). The book
contains tasks and exercises and is suitable for undergraduates postgraduates and experienced
corpus users alike.
