Reflects the influence of corpus linguistics in areas such as lexicography, translation studies, genre analysis, and language teaching. This book is divided into two sections, the first on monolingual corpora and the second addressing multilingual corpora. It is of interest to academics researching the applications of corpus linguistics.

Part One Monolingual Corpora; 1. Extracting concepts from dynamic legislative text collections Gael Dias, Sara Madeira and Jose Gabriel Pereira Lopes; 2. A diachronic genre corpus: problems and findings from the DIALAYMED-Corpus (DIAchronic Multilingual Corpus of LAYman-oriented MEDical Texts) Eva Martha Eckkrammer. 3. Word meaning in dictionaries, corpora and the speaker's mind Christiane Fellbaum, Lauren Delfs, Susanne Wolff and Martha Palmer; 4. Extracting meaning from text Gregory Grefenstette; 5. Translators at work: a case study of electronic tools used by translators in industry Riitta Jaaskelainen and Anna Mauranen; 6. Extracting meteorological contexts from the newspaper corpus of Slovenian Primoz Jakopin; 7. The Hungarian possibility suffix - hat/het as a dictionary entry Frenc Kiefer; 8. Dictionaries, corpora and word-formation Simon Krek, Vojko Gorjanc and Marko Stabej; 9. Hidden culture: using the British National Corpus with language learners to investigate collocational behaviour, wordplay and culture-specific references Dominic Stewart; 10. Language as an economic factor: the importance of terminology Wolfgang Teubert; 11. Lemmatisation and collocational analysis of Lithuanian nouns Andrius Utka; 12. Challenging the native speaker norm: a corpus driven analysis of scientific usage Geoffrey Williams; Part Two: Multilingual Corpora; 13. Chinese-English translation database: extracting units of translation from parallel texts; Chang Baobao, Pernilla Danielsson and Wolfgang Teubert; 14. Abstract nouns collocations: their nature in a parallel English-Czech corpus Frantisek Cermak; 15. Parallel corpora and translation studies: old questions, new perspectives? Reporting that in Gepcolt. A case study Dorothy Kenny; 16. Structural derivation and meaning extraction: a comparative study of French-Serbo-Croatian parallel texts Cvetana Krstev and Dusko Vitas; 17. Noun collocations from a multilingual perspective Ruta Marcinkeviciene; 18. Studies of English-Latvian legal texts for Machine Translation Inguna Skadina; 19. The applicability of lemmatization in translation equivalents detection Marko Tadic, Sanja Fulgosi and Kresimir Sojat; 20. Cognates: free rides, false friends or stylistic devices? A corpus based comparative study Spela Vintar and Silvia Hansen; 21. Trilingual corpus and its use for the teaching of reading comprehension in French Xu Xunfeng and Regis Kawecki.

Language is ubiquitous. As never before, it is now commonly understood how crucial language is for human interaction, for negotiating and shaping our material and ideational reality. In the digital age, the speed, scale and diversity of forms of communication and language use have grown rapidly. The increasing amount of language data that influences attitudes, decision-making and relationships highlights how the methodology of corpus linguistics together with the explanatory power of discourse analysis are indispensable for deciphering the world around us.

Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and discourse studies, the Corpus and Discourse series publishes innovative research where humanities and social sciences come together to understand the relationship between discourse and society in an increasingly digital world.

Series Editors: Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham, UK) and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK)

Consulting Editor: Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham, UK)

Editorial Board
Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK
Frantisek Cermák, Charles University, Prague
Susan Conrad, Portland State University, USA
Matteo Fuoli, University of Birmingham, UK
Maristella Gatto, University of Bari, Italy
Dominique Maingueneau, Université de Paris XII, France
Christian Mair, University of Freiburg, Germany
Alan Partington, University of Bologna, Italy
Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex, UK
Elena Tognini-Bonelli, University of Siena, Italy
Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK
Ruihua Zhang, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China
Feng Zhiwei, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Beijing, China