Gerbig A., Mason O. (eds.) Language, People, Numbers. Corpus Linguistics and Society

Rodopi B.V., 2008. — 334 pp.The papers in this volume are all concerned with structural aspects of language in relation to its users in a variety of socio-cultural situations. All papers are based on the assumption that only the use of authentic language data can inform us about the role and function of language, its structure and use. The papers give qualitative and mostly also quantitative analyses of their data, always with respect to the specific 'work' the language does for its users.
The contributors to this volume have all been in critical exchange with Michael Stubbs' leading, corpus-based work on theories of language structure and use and its applications to education, cognition and culture, literature, and politics. Such discussion is of course always ongoing; it involves innovative theoretical thinking, looks at the most recent data which have become available through new technology, and puts in perspective and evaluates established theories and findings. The present papers are all original work providing such new insights. They are all written in honour of Michael Stubbs' outstanding contributions to this discussion which are often of a programmatic nature, paving the way for more detailed work, following up his theoretical leads.Michael W. Stubbs – a select bibliography
Michael Stubbs: a theoretician of applied linguistics
Borrowed ideas.
How 'systemic' is a large corpus of English
Some notes on the concept of cognitive linguistics
Developing language education policy in Europe – and searching for theory
The semiotic patterning of Cædmon's Hymn as a 'hypersign'
Traditional grammar and corpus linguistics
Travelogues in time and space: a diachronic and intercultural genre study
An extended view of extended lexical units: tracking development and use
I don't know- differences in patterns of collocation and semantic prosody in phrases of different lengths
Stubbing your toe against a hard mass of facts: corpus data and the phraseology of STUB and TOE
Stringing together a sentence: linearity and the lexis-syntax interface
'Sailing the islands or watching from the dock': the treacherous simplicity of a metaphor: How we handle new (electronic) hypertext' versus 'old (printed) text'.
Linking the verbal and visual: new directions for corpus linguistics
The novel features of text. Corpus analysis and stylistics
Hocus pocus or God's truth: The dual identity of Michael Stubbs