"The inclusion of Contemporary in the title is no idle boast - all of these papers take corpus linguistics forward in exciting and challenging ways." - Michael Hoey, Baines Professor of English language, University of Liverpool, UK.

"...the book is of significant interest to linguistics and language learners, with its fascinating case studies, abundance of tables, examples, useful web links, references to freely downloadable tools (as AntConc) and an extensive bibliography. It clearly states the benefits of using corpus linguistics for pure, applied and computational linguistics. We believe that it can attract more researchers to the corpus-linguistic methods and provide a good starting point for further research." English Text Construction, 2:2, 2009

After [Baker's] useful introduction, which provides a brief but sensible update on the current status of corpus Work, there are sixteen chapters by different authors on the way corpora can contribute to the study of all kinds of topics, including metaphor, critical discourse analysis, stylistics, lexical patterning, patterns in speech, linguistic variation, dictionaries, second language teaching, translation and on the more technical issues of software development and corpus-building.

The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 90