Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introducing Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics
Chapter 2: Gender, Age and Corpus Linguistics
Chapter
3. Style and Corpus Linguistics
Chapter 4 Language Variation and Corpus Linguistics
Chapter 5 Language online and Corpus Linguistics
Chapter 6 Historical change and Corpus Linguistics
Chapter 7 Diachronic variation in the media and Corpus Linguistics
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Index
Joan OSullivan is Lecturer in English Language and Literature and Programme Coordinator at Mary Immaculate College Limerick. She is the author of Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change: Language Variety and Ideology in Advertising.
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics and works at the University of Extremadura. She is the author of Orality in Written Texts: Using Historical Corpora to Investigate Irish English (17001900) and co-editor of Digitally-Assisted Historical English Linguistics and Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research.
Anne Barron is Professor of English Linguistics at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. She is author and co-editor of several volumes including The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics.