First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

General IntroductionSection A Introducing functional and corpus approachesIntroductionChapter 1. Working with corpora: issues and insights (E Tognini-Bonelli)Chapter 2 Grammar and Spoken English (R Carter)Chapter 3 Corpus-based comparisons of registers (D. Biber and S Conrad)Chapter 4 Grammatical Structure: what do we mean? (Jim R. Martin)Chapter 5 Some grammatical problems in scientific English (M Halliday)Section B Getting down to specifics with corpus and functional approachesIntroductionChapter 6 Impersonalising stance: a study of anticipatory âEURœitâEUR in student and published academic writing (A Hewings and M. Hewings)Chapter 7 Researching the grammar of a âEURœliteraryâEUR text (H Hillier)Chapter 8 Grammar in the construction of online discussion messages (A Hewings and C.Coffin)Chapter 9 The development of language as a resource for learning (C Painter)Chapter 10 Grammar in the construction of medical case histories (G Francis and A Kramer-Dahl)Section C Critical text analysis with corpus and functional approachesIntroductionChapter 11 Nature and grammar (A Goatly)Chapter 12 Computer Applications in critical discourse analysis (V Koller and G Mautner)Chapter 13 Subjectivity, Evaluation and Point of View in Media Discourse (P White)Chapter 14 Human and inhuman geography: a comparative analysis of two long texts and a corpus (M Stubbs)Chapter 15 Checking Overinterpretation and Underinterpretation: Help from Corpora in Critical Linguistics (KA OâEUR(TM)Halloran and C Coffin)