Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not yet been widely adopted. Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts aims to advance the state of the art in the use of corpora in applied linguistics and contribute to the expertise in corpus use in China.

Foreword - Corpus Linguistics in China: theory, technology and pedagogy; Naixing WeiPrefaceIntroduction; Wenzhong Li and Simon Smith1. Lexical Priming: The Odd Case of a Psycholinguistic Theory that Generates Corpus-linguistic Hypotheses for both English and Chinese; Michael Hoey and Juan Shao2. Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Cross-linguistic Contrast of English and Chinese; Richard Xiao3. Learning Chinese with the Sketch Engine; Adam Kilgarriff, Nicole Keng, Simon Smith4. Patterned Distribution of Phraseologies within Text: The Case of Research Articles; Maocheng Liang5. Corpus' Pedagogic Processing of Phraseology for EFL Teaching: A Case of Implementation; Anping He6. A Corpus Analysis of Chinese Students' (Mis-)use of Nouns at XJTLU; Wangheng Peng7. A Corpus-based Analysis of the Use of Conjunctions in an EAP Teaching Context at a Sino-British University in China; Bin Zou and Wangheng Peng8. Application of Corpus Analysis Methods to the Teaching of Advanced English Reading and Students' Textual Analysis Skills; Wang Haiping and Zheng Yuanyuan9. An Appraisal Analysis of Reports about Chinese Military Affairs in The New York Times; Zhaoyang Mei, Ren Zhang and Baixiang Yu