Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics is an accessible and practical introduction to how corpus linguistics can be used to study language variation and change.
Joan O'Sullivan is Lecturer and Programme Co-ordinator at Mary Immaculate College Limerick. She is the author of Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change: Language Variety and Ideology in Advertising.
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor at the University of Extremadura. She is the author of Orality in written texts: Using historical corpora to investigate Irish English (1700-1900) and co-editor of Digitally-Assisted Historical English Linguistics and Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research.
Anne Barron is Professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. She is co-editor of several volumes including The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics.