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Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture demonstrates the potential of corpus linguistic methods for investigating language patterns across a range of contexts. Organised in three sections, the chapters range from detailed case studies on lexico-grammatical patterns to fundamental discussions of meaning as part of the 'discourse, contexts and cultures' theme. The final part on 'learner contexts' specifically emphasises the need for mixed-method approaches and the consideration of pedagogical implications for real world contexts. Beyond its contribution to current debates in the field, this edited volume indicates new directions in cross-disciplinary work.

• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Discourse contexts and cultures
• Patterns of discursive urban place-making in Brooklyn, New York
• The English of current Caribbean newspapers
• Corporate identity and its variation over time
• Applying Geographical Information Systems to researching historical corpora
• Corpus linguistics: Widening the remit
• Part II: Contexts of lexis and grammar
• Family collocation
• Factors influencing the translation of -ing participial free adjuncts
• The diachronic productivity of native combining forms in American English
• Advise against -ing: An emerging class of exceptions to Bach’s Generalization
• Subjective progressives in the history of American English
• Part III: Learner contexts
• A syntactic analysis of the introductory it pattern in non-native-speaker and nativespeaker student writing
• Phraseological teddy bears
• “Dear Man ^men and women madam, dear xxx sir”
• Marked themes in advanced learner English
• Phrasal verbs in the spoken and written modes of Norwegian L2 learner English
• Conversational gesture corpus analysis
• Corpus research for SLA
• List of contributors
• Index