Douglas Biber 和Randi Reppen 主编的《剑桥英语语料库语言学手册》是对英语语料库语言学不同领域当前研究现状的全面评述,具有重要的参考价值和指导意义。本文对该书的主要内容及其概括性、示范性、引领性、导向性、批判性和反思性等特色予以了评介。基于《手册》,有理由相信,基于语料库的渐进性研究或将成为语料库语言学在语言研究方面的又一理论创新,且随着语料库语言学理论创新的不断深入,语料库语言学的学科辨识度将会越来越显著。

Douglas Biber and Randi Reppen’s The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English and presents a critical discussion of the state of the art in each subdiscipline of corpus linguistics. It is of great value and guiding significance for corpus linguistics research. This paper gives a brief review of the book and its main characteristics such as a comprehensive summary, valuable guidance and critical discussion, as well as its detailed description of case studies and analysis of potential limitations and future directions in each area. Based on this book, there are good reasons for us to believe that corpus-based research on gradience might become another theoretical innovation of corpus linguistics in the field of language study. Furthermore, with constant theoretical innovations, the status of corpus linguistics as a subdiscipline of linguistics will become increasingly independent.