Anne O’Keeffe, Michael McCarthy the Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics (London: Routledge, 2010), xxviii.682 pp., ISBN 13:978–0–415-46,489-5 (hbk), $ 66

The idea of corpus linguistics is related with the nature of its occurrence and application. Historically, it existed since 1950’s during the period of Chomskians (grammarians); it is neither a theory of linguistics nor a branch of linguistics rather it is a methodology. It is defined as an authentic spoken and written data or a mix of both that assembled according to explicit design criteria and exploited through user friendly software (Babanoglu, 2013 ; Nesselhauf, 2005 ; O’Keeffe, McCarthy, & Carter, 2007 ). Similarly, Granger ( 2002 , p, 4) defines corpus as “a methodology which is found on the use of electronic collections of naturally occurring texts.” It is also one of the outcomes of the advancement of technology in language study, and language teaching. Through computer program analysis of large bodies of text, it supports language teaching and language analysis. It is large language database which is designed for specific linguistic or socio-pragmatic purposes (Flowerdew, 2012 ).