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Meaningful Texts
Corpus and Discourse
Series Editors: Wolfgang Teubert, University of Birmingham, and Michaela Mahlberg, Liverpool
Hope University College.
Editorial board: Frantisek Cermak (Prague), Susan Conrad (Portland), Geoffrey Leech (Lan-
caster) , Elena Tognini-Bonelli (Siena and TWC), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster and Vienna),
FengZhiwei (Beijing).
Corpus linguistics provides the methodology to extract meaning from texts. Taking as its
starting point the fact that language is not a mirror of reality but lets us share what we know,
believe and think about reality, it focuses on language as a social phenomenon, and makes
visible the attitudes and beliefs expressed by the members of a munity.
Consisting of both spoken and written language, discourse always has historical, social,
functional, and regional dimensions. Discourse can be monolingual or multilingual, inter-
connected by translations. Discourse is where language and social studies meet.
The Corpus and Discourse series consists of two strands. The first, Research in Corpus and
Discourse, features innovative contributions to various aspects of corpus linguistics and a wide
range of applications, from language technology via the teaching of a second language to a
history of mentalities. The second strand, Studies in Corpus and Discourse, will prised of
key texts bridging the gap between social studies and linguistics. Although equally academic-
ally rigorous, this strand will be aimed at a wider audience of academics and postgraduate
students working in both disciplines.
Published and ing titles in the series:
Studies in Corpus and Discourse
English Collocation Studies: The OSTI Report
John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley
Edited by Ramesh Krishnamurthy, including a new interview with John Sinclair conducted by
Wolfgang Teubert
Research in Corpus and Discourse
Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Co