Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Discourse contexts and cultures -- Patterns of discursive urban place-making in Brooklyn, New York -- The English of current Caribbean newspapers -- Corporate identity and its variation over time -- Applying Geographical Information Systems to researching historical corpora -- Corpus linguistics: Widening the remit -- Part II: Contexts of lexis and grammar -- Family collocation -- Factors influencing the translation of -ing participial free adjuncts -- The diachronic productivity of native combining forms in American English -- Advise against -ing: An emerging class of exceptions to Bach's Generalization -- Subjective progressives in the history of American English -- Part III: Learner contexts -- A syntactic analysis of the introductory it pattern in non-native-speaker and nativespeaker student writing -- Phraseological teddy bears -- "Dear Man men and women madam, dear xxx sir" -- Marked themes in advanced learner English -- Phrasal verbs in the spoken and written modes of Norwegian L2 learner English -- Conversational gesture corpus analysis -- Corpus research for SLA -- List of contributors -- Index