Anne O’Keeffe is Senior Lecturer at MIC, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her publications include the titles From Corpus to Classroom (2007), English Grammar Today (2011), Introducing Pragmatics in Use (2nd edition 2020) and as co-editor The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (1st edition 2010). With Geraldine Mark, she was co-Principal Investigator of the English Grammar Profile. She is co-editor, with Michael J. McCarthy, of two book series: The Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides and The Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics. Michael J. McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham. He is (co)author/(co)editor of 57 books, including Touchstone, Viewpoint, The Cambridge Grammar of English, English Grammar Today, From Corpus to Classroom, Innovations and Challenge in Grammar and titles in the English Vocabulary in Use series. He is author/co-author of 120 academic papers. He was co-founder of the CANCODE and CANBEC spoken English corpora projects. His recent research has focused on spoken grammar. He has taught in the UK, Europe and Asia and has been involved in language teaching and applied linguistics for 55 years.
This outstanding volume manages to be three things at once: a manual on how to 'do' corpus linguistics; a showcase of the state of the art in corpus linguistics and its wide range of applications; and a source of new insights and research directions. As such, it will be a major point of reference for budding and seasoned corpus linguists for many years to come. Elena Semino, Lancaster University, UK