Corpora-large collections of written and/or spoken text stored and accessed electronically-provide the means of investigating language that is of growing importance academically and professionally. Corpora are now routinely used in the following fields:






the production of dictionaries and other reference materials;



the development of aids to translation;



language teaching materials;



the investigation of ideologies and cultural assumptions;



natural language processing; and



the investigation of all aspects of linguistic behaviour, including vocabulary, grammar and pragmatics.

This new six-volume collection from Routledge brings together the most significant articles in the field of corpora, and is arranged thematically. The set also includes a new introduction by the editors, a chronological table and a comprehensive index. The Major Work is organized as follows:






Volume 1. Foundations-the history of corpus linguistics, 1955-80;



Volume 2. Setting up corpora;



Volume 3. Working with corpora;



Volume 4. Corpus linguistics, lexicology and language teaching;



Volume 5. The theoretical foundation of corpus linguistuics;



Volume 6. Corpus linguistics and natural language processing.