English Corpus Linguistics

This article reflects on the status of corpus-linguistic methodologies in English linguistics, and on the role of English linguistics in the development of corpus linguistics: what does English-language corpus linguistics look like from the outside? What is the extent to which English-language corpus linguistics is comparatively well-endowed with resources, in a way that other languages are not? And finally, what are key corpus-linguistic approaches and methodologies that were mainly or entirely developed in the context of English linguistics? In connection with that last question, we then go on to sketch seven corpus-linguistic approaches and methodologies that have (or had initially) a strong English-linguistics bent: the British tradition in corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, corpus-based approaches to dialectology and regional varieties, multidimensional analysis, corpus-based psycholinguistics, variationist linguistics, and learner corpus research.