Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- 1 Corpus Approaches to Sociolinguistics: Introduction and Chapter Overviews -- PART 1 Corpora and the Study of Languages/Dialects (Varieties of Global Englishes) -- 2 Using Large Online Corpora to Examine Lexical, Semantic, and Cultural Variation in Different Dialects and Time Periods -- 3 Using Corpus-Based Analysis to Study Register and Dialect Variation on the Searchable Web -- 4 Variation in Global English: A Collocation-Based Analysis -- 5 Indian English: A Pedagogical Model (Even) in India? -- PART 2 Corpora and Social Demographics -- 6 Sexuality -- 7 A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Pragmatic Marker You Get Me -- 8 Just and Actually at Work in New Zealand -- 9 Exploring the Intersection of Gender and Race in Evaluations of Mathematics Instructors on RateMyProfessors.com -- 10 Attitudes Toward Autism of Parents Raising Autistic Children: Evidence from "Mom" and "Dad" Blogs -- 11 Social Functional Linguistic Variation in Conversational Dutch -- PART 3 Corpora and Register Characteristics -- 12 Corpus-Driven Investigation of Corporate Governance Reports -- 13 Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Representations of the "Underclass" in the English-Language Press: Who are they, how do they behave, and who is to blame for them? -- 14 "Had Enough of Experts": Intersubjectivity and the Quoted Voice in Microblogging -- 15 Linguistic Variation in Facebook and Twitter posts -- Index