Review of Bamford, J., Cavalieri, S. and Diani, G. (Eds). (2013) Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Abstract

Bamford et al. (2013) edited volume comprises 16 studies of language variation and change in speech and writing, spanning both corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches. Although some of the studies have unfortunate methodological issues or lack sufficient discussion of the implications of the findings, the volume comprises an interesting set of investigations which together showcase the diversity of corpus linguistic research. The volume would be particularly useful to researchers working on variation within the discourse of academia, business, arts/culture and the media (all of which are well-represented in the book), as well as corpus compilers