Corpus Linguistics.

The chapter analyzes the contribution of CL to the study of dialogue and language as dialogue, with examples from English linguistics and academic discourse studies. CL has extended the possibilities of dialogue analysis and added to its theoretical-methodological perspectives. The chapter provides some background on CL, with special emphasis on spoken corpora and tools for corpus analysis. It then focuses on the complexity of language in use, the interactional features of language in speech and writing and the importance of CL for studies on language variation. The conclusions also mention the impact of CL in teaching language in a dialogic perspective.