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Corpus Perspectives on the Spoken Models used by EFL Teachers illustrates the key principles and practical guidelines for the design and exploitation of corpora for classroom-based research. This book is key reading for all pre- and in-service teachers of EFL as well as researchers in this field.

This book demonstrates how particular styles and varieties of language are chosen and represented in the media, to reveal changing language ideologies and sociolinguistic change. This book is key reading for researchers and advanced students undertaking research within the areas of sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics.

Orality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in the period 1700-1900. This book is key reading for advanced students and researchers of corpus linguistics, varieties of English, language change and historical linguistics.

The Role of Corpus Linguistics in the Ethnography of a Closed Community analyses the interactions of immigrants within an Irish reception centre for asylum seekers to highlight the instinctive resourcefulness of people who are faced with the challenge of communicating when there is no common language or culture. Based on three years of ethnographical observation and using an illuminating and innovative blending of applied methodologies, chiefly corpus linguistics, ethnography and conversation analysis, this book:Draws upon a corpus of 98,000 words;Examines the use of English in the interactions of residents with one another and those with English speaking staff of the centre;Challenges constructs such as speech community, communicative competence and interlanguage.This book is essential reading for academics and upper-level undergraduates or graduates working in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and those interested in research methodologies. It will also prove to be of significant interest to people interested in migration studies and to providers of English language education to immigrants.