CORPUS TYPES AND USES

Bróna Murphy; Elaine Riordan

doi:10.4324/9781003412212-33

CORPUS TYPES AND USES

Bróna Murphy
, Elaine Riordan

School of Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics

University of Limerick

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology, Second Edition
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	417-436
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9781040492666
ISBN (Print)	9781032534732
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003412212-33
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2026

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