《国际儿童语言研究方法:CHILDES国际儿童语料库数据储存和分析系统》内容简介：指南的译本和实证研究语料，将促进在单语和双语情境下汉语第一语言习得研究方面的进步。当然，这仅仅是个开始。对于汉语普通话而言，我们依然缺少类似现有的广东话以及多种欧洲语言的细致的纵向研究。在各种可用的汉语语料库中，仅Tardif从北京采集的叙事语料以及香港中文大学的双语语料库有音频链接。

《英汉翻译中的汉语译文语料库研究》中所展示的是国家社科基金项目“基于语料库的英汉翻译语言特征量化研究”（项目批准号07BYY011）的最终研究成果。该项目将语言对比与翻译研究有机地结合起来。采用基于语料库的研究方法，对汉语母语语料库以及与之对应的汉语译文语料库进行定性与定量的对比分析，从多种角度、在不同层面对汉语译文的特征进行全方位的宏观与微观考察，找出汉语译文的区别性特征，并通过考察英汉平行语料库中的源语渗透效应来确定翻译过程中源语对译文的影响程度。再将针对汉语译文的研究发现与目前国际上现有的主要是基于英文译文的翻译共性研究结果进行对比分析，探讨英汉语这样大跨度的翻译语对中产生的证据对所谓“第三语码”的启示。

English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful resources for linguists who believe that their theories and descriptions of English should be based on real rather than contrived data. Charles F. Meyer goes on to describe how to plan the creation of a corpus, how to collect and computerize data for inclusion in a corpus, how to annotate the data that are collected, and how to conduct a corpus analysis of a completed corpus. The book concludes with an overview of the challenges that corpus linguists face to make both the creation and analysis of corpora much easier undertakings than they currently are. Clearly organized and accessibly written, this book will appeal to students of linguistics and English language.

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer. Each chapter focuses on a different area of linguistics, including lexicography, grammar, discourse, register variation, language acquisition, and historical linguistics. Example analyses are presented in each chapter to provide concrete descriptions of the research methods and advantages of corpus-based techniques. Ten methodology boxes provide clear and concise explanations of the issues in doing corpus-based research and reading corpus-based studies and there is a useful appendix of resources for corpus-based investigation. This lucid and comprehensive introduction to the subject will be welcomed by a broad range of readers, from undergraduate students to professional researchers.

In Lexical Analysis, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, Hanks writes, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpora, the Internet) and the development of new methods of statistical analysis and inferencing. Hanks offers a new theory of language, the Theory of Norms and Exploitations (TNE), which makes a systematic distinction between normal and abnormal usage -- between rules for using words normally and rules for exploiting such norms in metaphor and other creative use of language. Using hundreds of carefully chosen citations from corpora and other texts, he shows how matching each use of a word against established contextual patterns plays a large part in determining the meaning of an utterance. His goal is to develop a coherent and practical lexically driven theory of language that takes into account the immense variability of everyday usage and that shows that this variability is rule governed rather than random. Such a theory will complement other theoretical approaches to language, including cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, generative lexicon theory, priming theory, and pattern grammar.

为了满足读者了解如何动手制作语料库的需要，自2006年以来，中国外语教育研究中心和外语教学与研究出版社连续四年举办了语料库与外语研究研修班，梁茂成、李文中、许家金几位博士都是主讲人。他们根据授课经验，收集和设计了许多案例和颇为有效的软件，精心编制了这本《语料库应用教程》，手把手地传授语料库创建和应用方面的方法和技术。此事可庆可贺，而此书则是一本值得向读者大力推荐的好书。这本书有什么好处呢？
1) 说理清楚。这本书强调的是怎样动手，但是知其然，还必须知其所以然。否则就会陷入盲目性。语料库语言学牵涉到的学科专业不少，例如文本分析、语体分析、计算机技术、统计学等。这本书删繁就简、用精取宏，把道理和概念都交代得清清楚楚。
2) 按部就班，循序渐进。要动手，必须讲究先后安排，那就是条理性的问题。这本书经过精心策划，安排得当，使学习者容易上手，然后逐步升堂入室。
3) 锐意求新，体现语料库语言学的新进展。比如，XML语言是近些年来才得到发展和认可的语言，便于记录语料库中的结构化信息，而和它相联系、便于实现高效检索的正则表达式在语料库相关研究中正在得到广泛应用。这本书对怎样利用XML语言进行语料库建设、如何使用正则表达式进行高效检索等问题做了清楚而详尽的解释和说明，而现有的语料库教科书对此均讳莫如深。
4) 资源丰富。书中介绍了很多关于语料库语言学的资源，并附有作者自行编制的软件，为学习者建立语料库、利用语料库从事研究提供了极大的方便。
我接触语料库语言学已有10多年了，也编制过几个语料库，那些都是第一代的语料库。读了这本新书后，才感到自己的语料库知识大有更新的必要。这本书出版后，我以首先获得它为荣。
——广东外语外贸大学 桂诗春教授