This book is essential for learning statistical analysis of texts. Most importantly, Oakes's is the only current corpus-linguistic book that devotes such a large portion of its pages to stylistics … the whole book is worthwhile for the literary scholar.

Language and Literature

This book is essential for learning statistical analysis of texts. Most importantly, Oakes's is the only current corpus-linguistic book that devotes such a large portion of its pages to stylistics … the whole book is worthwhile for the literary scholar.

Language and Literature: Journal of the Poetic and Linguistics Association

Gives many instructive examples of statistical techniques applied to language data, provides exercises at the end of each chapter, and has a clear glossary.

This Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 79, No. 1