Douglas Biber The last decade has witnessed an explosion of research studies in corpus linguistics, an approach to describing language that employs sophisticated computer tools and quantitative techniques.  These studies have shown that speakers and wr… more »

Anne O'Keeffe Pragmatics focuses on the territory between sentence meaning and intended meaning. It has relevance to a wide range of areas including linguistics, philosophy and psychology. Recent years have seen a growth in empirical studies in the are… more »

Learner corpora: a multifarious resource for pedagogical lexicography Sylviane Granger Learner corpus research is a fairly young but highly dynamic field of research which began to emerge as a discipline in its own right in the late 1980’s/early 1990… more »