Abstract There are many different ways in which modern Corpus Linguistics can be used to enrich and broaden our understanding of legal discourse. Based on the central principle co-occurrence co-selection language construction, this paper reviews current applications area discourse focusing issues ranging from phraseology, variation discourse, translation, register genre perspectives forensic co...

Computational linguistics and corpus linguistics are closely-related disciplines: they both exploit electronic corpora, extract various kinds of linguistic information from them, and make use of the same methods to acquire this information. Moreover, both were heavily affected by "paradigm shifts" from the prevailing empiricism of the 1950s, to rationalism, then back again with a revival of emp...