<p> This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including:</p><br/><p>* collocations,<br/>* keyness<br/>* concordances<br/>* dispersion plots<br/>* building and annotating corpora</p><br/><p>Illustrated with a number of real-life examples of corpus-based DA from a range of sources and covering a variety of subjects, this is an informative introduction to using corpus linguistics as a methodology in discourse analysis.</p><br/><p> </p>>
