1.  Introduction to Corpus-driven Linguistics

Plain text: its creation, management and analysis.
Contrast with NLP methodology.
Theoretical postulates - new emphases, new postulates.
 Primacy of spoken language (I)
 Role of grammar (I)
 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic meaning

2.  The Creation of Meaning

The lexical item and its structure
Language as a semi-formal system
Paraphrase and definition
Illocution

3.  The Management of Meaning

Lexical and grammatical paradigms
Contextual priorities
Cohesion and coherence
The lexical origin of meaning
Grammar (II)
Assembly

4.  The Negotiation of Meaning

Discontinuity
Truth value and averral
Follow-up and challenge
Spoken language (II)
Complexity

5.  The exploitation of meaning

Text meaning
Reversal
"contagion"
Stylistics

6.  Conclusion

Future methodologies
Practical aspects of research
Theoretical development
Further automation