Corpora is a twice-yearly peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 linguistic

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on corpus linguistics

Corpus linguistics

Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples or "real world" text. This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language. Originally done by hand, corpora are now largely...

, with a focus on corpus construction and corpus technology. It is edited by Tony McEnery of Lancaster University

Lancaster University

Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a leading research-intensive British university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established by Royal Charter in 1964 and initially based in St Leonard's Gate until moving to a purpose-built 300 acre campus at...

 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

.

Aims and scope

The journal is concerned both with the construction of text corpora

Text corpus

In linguistics, a corpus or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts...

 and their practical use across fields, disciplines and languages. Most emphasis is given to contributions devoted to corpus linguistic

Corpus linguistics

Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples or "real world" text. This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language. Originally done by hand, corpora are now largely...

 theories and methodologies.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in the following services:

• Australian Research Council ERA 2010 Ranked Journal List
• Bibliography of Linguistic Literature
• Directory of Lexicography Institutions
• EBSCO A-to-Z
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• EBSCO TOC Premier
• European Reference Index of Research Journals in the Humanities
• JournalTOCs
• Linguistics Abstracts
• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
• MLA
  Modern Language Association
  The Modern Language Association of America is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature...
  
  International Bibliography