%0 Journal Article %T LING¨¹ISTICA DE CORPUS: UNA INTRODUCCION AL AMBITO %A PARODI %A GIOVANNI %J RLA. Revista de ling¨¹¨ªstica te¨®rica y aplicada %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-48832008000100006 %X this article focuses critically on a relatively new way of doing linguistics, that is, corpus linguistics (cl). to do so, a general overview of the (re)emergence is presented and a theoretical background is analyzed in order to justify its independence as a linguistic research methodology but with robust principles. also, my own definition of cl is proposed. a discussion of the possible status of cl as a theory is focused. to the end of the article, cl and spanish language research is related. %K corpus linguistics %K methodology %K text %K corpus. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-48832008000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en