Introduction Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt: Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discourse Pragmatics and discourse Thomas Kohnen: Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and texts Irma Taavitsainen: The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourse Tanja Rütten: A diachronic perspective on changing routines in texts Minna Nevala: Friends will be “friends”? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English letters Minna Palander-Collin: Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interaction Anita Fetzer: Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue? Karin Aijmer: “So er I just sort I dunno I think it’s just because...”: A corpus study of I don’t know and dunno in learners’ spoken English Magnus Levin and Hans Lindquist: On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize text Karin Axelsson: Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutions Anna Marchi and Charlotte Taylor: Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005 Lexis, grammar and semantics Stephen Coffey: A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frame Magali Paquot and Yves Bestgen: Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extraction Naixing Wei: On the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSEC Jukka Tyrkkö and Turo Hiltunen: Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writing Arja Nurmi: May: The social history of an auxiliary Sara Gesuato: GO to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensions Carolin Biewer: Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study Ingvilt Marcoe: Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writing Daniël Van Olmen: A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperatives Corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing Dagmar Deuber: Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis Alpo Honkapohja, Samuli Kaislaniemi and Ville Marttila: Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora Hans Martin Lehmann and Gerold Schneider: Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactions Index