The second edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide.

After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the authors present a number of recent case studies providing new insights into vocabulary, collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change. A final chapter shows how the web and social media can be used as a source for linguistic investigations and contains information on how to compile your own corpus. Each chapter includes study questions, exercises and updated suggestions for further reading.

The second edition features:

• New coverage on social media, DIY corpora and ethical concerns
• New material on metonymy and pragmatics
• Updated example investigations, corpus exercises and study questions
• Examples of how to create your own corpus data
• Information on new corpora with accompanying links