Exploring English With Online Corpora

This interactive guide to the use of online corpora will be invaluable for teachers and students of English. It demonstrates how to use online corpora and text analysis software to understand different aspects of language, and to formulate and test your own research hypotheses, using data from online corpora as evidence.

Wendy Anderson is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests lie in corpus linguistics, semantics, metaphor and intercultural language education. Between 2004 and 2008 she was a researcher for the Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech and Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing projects, led by John Corbett. More recently, between 2012 and 2016, she was Principal Investigator of two Digital Humanities projects: 'Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus', which sought to trace the place of metaphor across the history of English, and the follow-on project 'Metaphor in the Curriculum'.

John Corbett is Professor of English and Head of the English Department at the University of Macau. His research interests include corpus linguistics, intercultural language education, Scottish literature and the Scots language. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Between 2003-10 he co-directed the AHRC-funded projects, the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech and the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing, 1700-1945.