Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> Douglas Biber is a linguist who has spearheaded the computerized analysis of large, systematically constructed text corpora, yielding new and more sophisticated ways of understanding language and its use. His <jats:italic>multidimensional</jats:italic> approach to analyzing discourse, which examines co‐occurrence patterns of large numbers of linguistic features across a broad range of spoken and written texts, has been highly influential in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and English linguistics. Biber also led the intensive, multiyear effort to produce <jats:italic>The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English</jats:italic> (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 1999), a major academic grammar of English based on corpus findings. He has been active in developing pedagogical applications of corpus‐analytic results as well. </jats:p>