Literature
Especially if you are undertaking a larger corpus linguistic project (as for example in your final thesis), you will need further information. This page offers a selected bibliography of books and articles about corpus-linguistic theory and methodology.
General Introductions to Corpus Linguistics
Baker, Paul (ed.) [2009]: Contemporary Corpus Linguistics. London: Continuum.
Biber, Douglas (2011): Corpus Linguistics. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
Biber Douglas (ed.) [2015]: The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Farr, Fiona (2011): Applying Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Hoffmann, Sebastian et al. (2008): Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb: A Practical Guide. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Hunston, Susan (2008): Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kübler, Sandra (2015): Corpus Linguistics and Linguistically Annotated Corpora. London: Bloomsbury.
Lindquist, Hans (2009): Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
McEnery, Tony & Andrew Hardie (2012): Corpus Linguistics: Method, theory and practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Meyer, Charles F. (2002): English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mukherjee, Joybrato (2009): Anglistische Korpuslinguistik: Eine Einführung. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.
O'Keefe, Anne & Michael McCarthy (eds.) [2010]: The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. London/New York: Routledge.
Help with Quantitative Research
Baayen, Rolf Harald (2008): Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics Using R. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Field, Andy (2018): Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics. 5th ed. London: Sage.
Field, Andy, Jeremy Miles & Zoe Field (2012): Discovering Statistics Using R. Los Angeles: Sage.
Gries, Stefan T. (2017): Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
Gries, Stefan T. (2013): Statistics for Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. 2nd ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Griffiths, Dawn (2009): Statistik von Kopf bis Fuß. Beijing: O'Reilly.
Hatzinger, Reinhold, Hornik, Kurt, Nagel, Herbert & Maier, Marco J. (2014): R: Einführung durch angewandte Statistik. 2nd ed. Hallbergmoos: Pearson.
Johnson, Keith (2008): Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Klier, Rainer (2002): Perl. München: Addison-Wesley.
Larson-Hall, J. (2016): A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS and R. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
Oakes, Michael P. (2003): Statistics for Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Rasinger, Sebastian M. (2008): Quantitative Research in Linguistics: An Introduction. London: Continuum.
Schlobinski, Peter (1996): Empirische Sprachwissenschaft. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
Corpus Pragmatics
Aijmer, Karin (ed.) [2015]: Corpus Pragmatics: A Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Romero Trillo, Jésus (ed.) [2008]: Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics: A Mutualistic Entente. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Taavitsainen, Irma (ed.) [2014]: Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Weisser, Martin (2018): How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data. Speech Acts and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Articles on Compiling a Corpus
Leech, Geoffrey (2005 [2004]): "Adding linguistic annotation." in Wynne, Martin (ed.): Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
MacEnery, Antony & Richard Xiao (2005 [2004]): "Character encoding in corpus construction." in Wynne, Martin (ed.): Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Reppen, Randi (2010): "Building a corpus: what are the key considerations?" in O'Keefe, Anne & Michael McCarthy (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. London/New York: Routledge.
Sinclair, John (2005 [2004]): "Corpus and text - basic principles." in Wynne, Martin (ed.): Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Thompson, Paul (2005 [2004]): "Spoken language corpora." in Wynne, Martin (ed.): Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Helpful Software Manuals
Anthony, Laurence (2014): AntConc (Windows, Macintosh OSX, and Linux): Build 3.4.3. Tokyo, Japan: Waseda University.
Scott, Mike (2015): WordSmith Tools Manual - Software for finding word patterns. Liverpool: Oxford University Press & Lexical Analysis Software Ltd.
Tang, Warren (2011): A Simple Guide to Using AntConc. Hiroshima, Japan: Hiroshima University.