Corpus types and uses
Abstract
This chapter provides a broad overview of corpus types and uses. It surveys different five types of corpora: General, Parallel, Historical, Multimodal and Specialised. In each section, we provide a description of the corpus type, the key characteristics associated with the type as well as its applications. The overview is not meant to be exhaustive as there are many more corpora than we have space to mention here. However, our aim is to introduce the main types and uses so that readers may then seek to explore the types themselves depending on their interests. The chapter concludes with recommendations for future directions.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Lexicography and Language Studies
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Pages
- 417–436
- Publication date
- 18 May 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter