Renouf A., Kehoe A. (eds.) The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics

Amsterdam - Atlanta: Rodopi B.V, 2006. — 417 pp.The conference song, lyrics penned by Sue Blackwell under the inspiration of Gilbert and Sullivan and Willem Meijs, bubbled up in the general exuberance of the 24th International ICAME Conference held in Guernsey in May 2003. Corpus Linguistics has had its ups and downs, but the twenty-three contributions in this volume are witness to a spirited and fruitful period in the evolution of the field.
The role of conference host afforded an opportunity to foreground aspects of corpus linguistics that seemed to be growing in importance. The title of this volume, ‘The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics’, was chosen for several reasons. Firstly, it alludes to the maturity of the field. Twenty something years on, corpus linguistic activities incorporate a much richer cycle of events, consisting not just of small, medium and large primary corpus building but of specialised and multi-dimensional secondary corpus building; not just of corpus analysis but also of corpus evaluation; not just of an initial application of theory but of self-reflection and a new concern with theory in the light of experience. Secondly, this title reflects an emphasis on language as a changing phenomenon, both in terms of the established historical study which has become an integral part of ICAME activity; the newer short-range diachronic study of 20th century and current English; and the growing convergence of the two. Thirdly, the title acknowledges the recent change in the definition of ‘corpus’ which has accompanied the availability of texts on the World Wide Web.The corpus-user’s chorusCorpus creation
Oh Canada! Towards the Corpus of Early Ontario English
Favoring Americanisms? ou vs. o before l and r in Early English in Australia: A corpus-based approach
Computing the Lexicons of Early Modern English
EFL dictionaries, grammars and language guides from 1700 to 1850: testing a new corpus on points of spokenness
The Old English Apollonius of Tyre in the light of the Old English Concordancer
Diachronic Corpus Study – from past to present
Prediction with SHALL and WILL: a diachronic perspective
Circumstantial adverbials in discourse: a synchronic and a diachronic perspective
Changes in textual structures of book advertisements in the ZEN Corpus
Curtains like these are selling right in the city of Chicago for $1.50 – The mediopassive in American 20th-century advertising language
Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English
Synchronic Corpus Study – present-day
Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the British National Corpus
How recent is recent? On overcoming interpretational difficulties
Looking at looking: Functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and ‘school’ English
Ditransitives, the Given Before New principle, and textual retrievability: a corpus-based study using ICECUP
The Spanish pragmatic marker pues and its English equivalents
The Web as a CorpusWebCorp: A tool for online linguistic information retrieval and analysis
Diachronic linguistic analysis on the web with WebCorp
New ways of analysing ESL on the WWW with WebCorp and WebPhraseCount
I’m like, Hey, it works!: Using GlossaNet to find attestations of the quotative (be) like in English-language newspapers
Corpus Linguistics and Grammatical Theory
Corpus linguistics and English reference grammars
Tracking ongoing grammatical change and recent diversification in present-day standard English: the complementary role of small and large corpora
but it will take time…points of view on a lexical grammar of English
Grammar Discussion Panel
Corpus linguistics, grammar and theory: Report on a panel discussion at the 24th ICAME conference