Gries (U. of California at Santa Barbara), Wulff (U. of North Texas), and Davies (Brigham Young U.) present 15 selected papers from the March 2008 conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics with the aim of providing a coherent and representative sampling of the conference proceedings in terms of current topic areas and corpus-linguistic methodologies covered. They have organized the papers into sections dealing with diachronics, genre, forms of functions, and methods applications. Examples of specific topics include journalistic corpus similarity over time, subject omission in Russian, linguistic realizations of rhetorical strategy, lexical bundle distribution in university classroom talk, suggestions and recommendations in academic speech, dispersions and adjusted frequencies in corpora, exploration of scientific texts using data mining, and automated learning of appraisal extraction patterns. Price is converted from Euros. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)