With the increasing accessibility of online corpora and the advancement of corpus tools, the use of corpus tools and methods is becoming increasingly common in the field of World Englishes (WE). Large online English corpora such as the Global Web-based Corpus of English (GloWbE) handily provide useful tools and resources for ‘a wide range of studies on lexical, phraseological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic variation among dialects of English’ (Davies & Fuchs, 2015) and are an important ‘toolbox’ of resources for WE study by researchers. However, for WE teachers and researchers, especially newcomers, two of the most important challenges are how to properly incorporate corpus tools and methods into WE instruction and how to accurately evaluate the status of various corpus tools and methods in research practice. Fortunately, this timely book, Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes: A Guide for Research, provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of corpus-based WE research and is immensely helpful for addressing the previously mentioned challenges. This book gives a detailed account of how to analyze WE using corpus-based linguistic methods. Along with case studies, hands-on exercises and open questions in Chapters 2–7, the authors, Claudia Lange and Sven Leuckert, demonstrate the use of freely available corpora, corpus interfaces and corpus analysis tools to conduct empirical WE studies. Applying case studies in the explanation of relevant concepts and methods, this book also provides an introduction to the theory and practice of WE analysis, illustrates the basics of corpus-linguistics methods and expounds on several key corpora forWE research, including the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), the International Corpus of English (ICE), and GloWbE. The aim of this book is to provide an accessible and practical guide to corpus-based WE research for graduate students, university instructors and researchers interested in WE. Some chapters may also provide insights for seasoned corpus linguists who are unfamiliar with WE and what they offer with regard to the variation of languages. The book is comprised of eight chapters. The first and last, Chapters 1 and 8, introduce and conclude the book, while Chapters 2 to 7 expound and illustrate the applications of corpora to WE study. In the following text, I will briefly introduce and analyze these chapters and review the features and the weaknesses of the book as a whole. Chapter 1 ‘Introduction’ initially introduces the fields of WE and corpus linguistics and then gradually merges the two fields together. Chapter 2 ‘World English’ proceeds with a historical perspective on the development of English from an island language to a global means of communication and gradually moves to the present by answering some key questions in the field of WE. For example: how did English spread globally and become a major global language? How can we categorize the different forms of English worldwide? And, eventually, how can we study variation in WE via corpus linguistics tools? Chapter 3 ‘Corpus-linguistics approach’ focuses on corpus linguistics. The authors of the book first introduce some theoretical and practical basics of corpuslinguistic study: corpus, corpus-based approach, corpus-driven approach, n-grams, and steps in corpus analysis. This is followed by a brief explanation of some important terms and concepts in the field. Additionally, the authors in this chapter emphasize the importance of the research question and ask readers to consider the quality of any data source when they

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使用语料库语言方法发现世界各地的英语变体 - Claudia Lange & Sven Leuckert，语料库语言学和世界英语：研究指南。纽约：劳特利奇，2019 年。十五+220。电子书 15.99 英镑，国际标准书号：9780429489433

随着在线语料库的普及和语料库工具的进步，语料库工具和方法的使用在世界英语（WE）领域变得越来越普遍。大型在线英语语料库，例如全球基于 Web 的英语语料库 (GloWbE)，为“关于英语方言之间的词汇、短语、形态、句法和语义变化的广泛研究”提供了有用的工具和资源（Davies & Fuchs，2015 年），是研究人员进行 WE 研究的重要资源“工具箱”。然而，对于WE教师和研究人员，尤其是新人来说，两个最重要的挑战是如何将语料库工具和方法正确地融入WE教学中，以及如何准确评估各种语料库工具和方法在研究实践中的状态。幸运的是，这本及时的书，语料库语言学和世界英语：研究指南，全面介绍了基于语料库的 WE 研究领域，对解决前面提到的挑战非常有帮助。本书详细介绍了如何使用基于语料库的语言方法分析 WE。除了第 2-7 章中的案例研究、动手练习和开放式问题，作者 Claudia Lange 和 Sven Leuckert 展示了使用免费提供的语料库、语料库接口和语料库分析工具来进行实证 WE 研究。本书运用案例研究解释相关概念和方法，介绍了WE分析的理论和实践，阐述了语料库-语言学方法的基础知识，阐述了WE研究的几个关键语料库，包括当代美国英语语料库 (COCA)、美国历史英语语料库 (COHA)、国际英语语料库 (ICE) 和 GloWbE。本书的目的是为对 WE 感兴趣的研究生、大学教师和研究人员提供基于语料库的 WE 研究的易懂且实用的指南。一些章节还可以为不熟悉 WE 以及他们提供的关于语言变化的经验丰富的语料库语言学家提供见解。本书由八章组成。第一章和最后一章，第 1 章和第 8 章，介绍和总结本书，而第 2 章至第 7 章阐述和说明语料库在 WE 研究中的应用。在下文中，我将简要介绍和分析这些章节，并从整体上回顾本书的特点和不足。第一章“引言”首先介绍了WE和语料库语言学的领域，然后逐渐将这两个领域融合在一起。第二章“世界英语”从历史的角度出发，探讨英语从一种岛国语言发展为一种全球性的交流方式，并通过回答WE领域的一些关键问题，逐步走向现在。例如：英语是如何在全球传播并成为主要的全球语言的？我们如何对全球不同形式的英语进行分类？最终，我们如何通过语料库语言学工具研究 WE 的变异？第 3 章“语料库语言学方法”侧重于语料库语言学。本书作者首先介绍了语料库语言研究的一些理论和实践基础：语料库、基于语料库的方法、语料库驱动方法、n-grams、语料库分析的步骤。随后简要解释了该领域的一些重要术语和概念。此外，本章的作者强调了研究问题的重要性，并要求读者在阅读时考虑任何数据源的质量。