This book presents a richly illustrated handson discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in linguistics today. The authors address key methodological issues in corpus linguistics such as collocations keywords and the categorization of concordance lines. They show how these topics can be explored stepbystep with BNCweb a userfriendly webbased tool that supports sophisticated analyses of the 100millionword British National Corpus. Indeed the BNC and BNCweb have been described by Geoffrey Leech as an unparalleled combination of facilities for finding out about the English language of the present day Foreword. The book contains tasks and exercises and is suitable for undergraduates postgraduates and experienced corpus users alike.