The 21 chapters that make up this edited collection take the reader across a range of interesting and diverse topics. The use of corpora to explore a variety of issues from machine translation to teaching implications creates a link between the different chapters. An impressive range of languages is represented, including Lithuanian, Czech, Chinese, French, and Hungarian. As the title states, the studies include work with both monolingual and multilingual corpora, and the type of corpora is used as an organizing feature.

The book is divided into two parts: 12 chapters that describe studies with monolingual corpora and 9 chapters that present studies with multilingual corpora. Some of the unique contributions found in Part 1, “Monolingual Corpora,” include the following: Jakopin's use of the universally familiar topic of weather to provide the reader with a detailed examination of Slovenian weather forecasts; Stewart's use of the British National Corpus (BNC) to shed light on culture and creative language; and Williams' thoughtful chapter, “Challenging the Native Speaker Norm: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Scientific Usage.” More traditional topics, such as word extraction and collocation, are also addressed in relation to monolingual corpora.

In Part 2, “Multilingual Corpora,” the reader is presented with an equally wide range of topics but with the added complexity of dealing with issues in at least two languages. A variety of challenging issues is addressed from several perspectives. The topics in this section range from the procedures for aligning texts in multiple languages, including languages with script differences, to Hong Kong Chinese speakers using trilingual corpora (Chinese, French, and English) to learn French.

This work addresses a range of interesting topics through well-written chapters. Readers interested in the breadth of topics and languages that can be addressed through corpus explorations will find this a useful collection.