Corpus types and uses

This chapter provides a broad overview of corpus types and uses. It surveys different five types of corpora: General, Parallel, Historical, Multimodal and Specialised. In each section, we provide a description of the corpus type, the key characteristics associated with the type as well as its applications. The overview is not meant to be exhaustive as there are many more corpora than we have space to mention here. However, our aim is to introduce the main types and uses so that readers may then seek to explore the types themselves depending on their interests. The chapter concludes with recommendations for future directions.