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  • Introduction Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessments; Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: the role of corpus evidence in the study of sociolinguistic variation and change; Creating corpora from spoken legacy materials: variation and change meet corpus linguistics; Discourse linguistics meets corpus linguistics: theoretical and methodological issues in the troubled relationship; 'Tis well known to barbers and laundresses: Overt references to knowledge in English medical writing from the Middle Ages to the Present Day.