About the Book

'An intelligent and accessible book which meets a real need. Anyone who wants to know what a corpus is and what you can do with one should reach for this book first.'
Raphael Salkie, School of Languages, University of Brighton, UK

Working with Specialized Language: A Practical Guide to Using Corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language.

The resources and techniques used to investigate general language cannot be easily adopted for specialized investigations. This book is designed especially for users of language for special purposes (LSP). Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables LSP users to design, build and exploit corpus resources that meet their specialized language needs. Highly practical and accessible, the book includes exercises, a glossary and an appendix describing relevant resources and corpus-analysis software.

Working with Specialized Language is ideal for translators, technical writers and subject specialists who are interesting in exploring the potential of a corpus-based approach to teaching and learning LSP.