This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis
(DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics.
Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and
evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including:
collocations, keyness, concordances, dispersion plots, building
and annotating corpora. Illustrated with a number of real-life
examples of corpus-based DA from a range of sources and covering
a variety of subjects, this is an informative introduction to
using corpus linguistics as a methodology in discourse analysis.