ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides some background information regarding stylistic variation in Chinese. It highlights the scope and several notable characteristics of the present project. The book discusses the various corpora and search tools used in the present work. The descriptions of the search options are fairly detailed so that interested readers can use them as resources in their own corpus work on written Chinese. It focuses on methodology may prove helpful to readers interested in starting work using the MM framework and Correspondence Analysis. The book discusses a cross-linguistic comparison with English data using the two-dimensional analysis. Although fairly sketchy and tentative, it may spark interested readers to pursue further work in this area. It also provides a more in-depth examination of a few selected cases, applying the presented two-dimensional analysis. The book explains the pedagogical implications of the research work.
