RT Journal Article T1 Current trends in Corpus Linguistics and textual variation A1 Romero-Barranco, Jesús A1 Rodríguez Abruñeiras, Paula K1 Text types K1 Register variation K1 Discourse Analysis K1 Historical Linguistics K1 Dialectal variation AB Corpus Linguistics has proved of great value as a methodological tool in shedding light on how discourse is constructed in different text types. This opening contribution to the special issue “Corpus-linguistic perspectives on textual variation” provides an account of some of the most common applications of Corpus Linguistics, describes some of the most widely used corpora, and pins down some of the most influential corpus-based research works. In so doing, we contextualise the contributions to this collection of articles. The main aim of this special issue is to showcase cutting-edge research on textual variation based on linguistic corpora, thus illustrating how Corpus Linguistics draws from but also feeds a multiplicity of linguistic branches, such as (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Register Studies, Historical Linguistics, and Dialectology PB Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics AELINCO YR 2021 FD 2021 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/38351 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/38351 LA eng NO Romero-Barranco, Jesús & Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. (2021). Current trends in Corpus Linguistics and textual variation. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 9(2), i-xiii. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.09.02.01 NO The present research has been funded by the Autonomous Government of Andalusia (grant number PY182782) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant/award number PID2020-117030GB-I00; MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). These grants are hereby gratefully acknowledged. DS Minerva RD 28 abr 2026