1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Language teaching 14
6. 3. Corpus issues 47
7. 4. The Corpus-based approach 65
8. 5. The corpus-driven approach 84
9. 6. Item and environment 101
10. 7. Working with corpora across languages 131
11. 8. The contextual theory of meaning 157
12. 9. Historical landmarks in meaning 165
13. 10. Conclusion 177
14. References 187
15. Appendix 1 203
16. Appendix 2 205
17. Appendix 3 206
18. Appendix 4 207
19. Appendix 5 209
20. Appendix 6 211
21. Appendix 7 213
22. Appendix 8 215
23. Appendix 9 217
24. Index 219