Abstract
Technology has been the major enabling factor in the growth of corpus linguistics but has both shaped and been shaped by it. Corpus Linguistics (CL), for many, is an end it itself. That is, it provides a means for the empirical analysis of language and in so doing adds to its definition and description. Individuals such as Johns and Tribble have, for many years, championed the use of corpora in language learning in the form of Data-driven Learning (DDL). Analysing discourse is another area where CL has been adopted as a means of looking at language patterns over much larger datasets. Pragmatics is the study of language in use and so CL seems a logical ally to the field. The interest in non-formal features of language provides a natural territory of expansion for CL into sociolinguistics and other areas of language in society such as media discourse and political discourse.
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