Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics (Edinburgh Sociolinguistics)

"This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research ...Techniques of analysis like concordancing, keywords and collocations are discussed, along with corpus annotation and statistical procedures such as chi-sqared tests and clustering. Paula Baker takes a critical approach to using corpora in sociolinguistics, outlining the limitations of the approach, as well as its advantages" --BACK COVER.